- Planted 5 cherry trees in memorial of this program.
- Cut some bamboo trees to experience the maintenance activities.
- Made bamboo fence using the cut bamboo trees.
- Took a walk in the forest.
The forest behind the Matsuoji Temple is maintained by the cooperation among local government officials, volunteering university students and local NPO. The bamboo forest was densely crowded before thinning started by the NPO and volunteers.
Spreading bamboo is a big problem in many places in Japan. It invades neighboring forest and monopolize the area. Proper management by thinning and elimination is necessary to control the expansion, but local government or land owners do not have enough resource to do it. Cooperation with volunteer citizen is one way to promote such management.
At night, Prof. Joyashree Roy has arrived.
Today,I went to the Matsuji temple its surrounded with the forest, where is called also Satoyama. There were plenty of bamboo trees and aliving more than 400 species of plants,insects and so on. Now our lif is not necessary for living like firewood,naturl crop,plants any more. we have to manage that things in order to keep going preservation and growth. So we did cut the bamboo trees and made bamboo fence, it was good experienced.
ReplyDeleteand also we planted cherry trees for memorial of this program. One day I wanna go there to check our cherry trees. It can be possible because it's not a faraway from unveriversity!
Tough time...Statement and report...hours after hours brain storming session....tired now..want to sleep....
ReplyDeleteIm so happy!!
ReplyDeletebecause, I palanted memorial cherry trees with great ISC member!!
I can go, so I think that I will go there every day... no every week......every month :)
but now,we just make statement...Im worried about our health.
we planted the cerry blossom trees as our memorial trees.
ReplyDeletehope we can see the full opened flower of cherry blossom togather in the future.
at night, we begun to tallk about out statement. the things are going well, but everyday we have many things to do even at night. we all hope to have a long relaxing time.
We had the first meeting of our statement drafting. It took us hours to agree on one base statement. i was hoping to be able to sleep well, but no...
ReplyDeleteThe planting of cherry tree was very fun, i was able to hold a bighammer, hahaha...and cutting of babmboo trees was fun too, i was able to bring home some cut bamboo.