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C.W. NICOL AFAN WOODLAND TRUST

Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Mar 30, 2020
We live in neither East nor West
With COVID-19 pulling the world apart, it’s the people, from healthworkers to thoughtful neighbors that can bring it back together.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jul 2, 2016
The Imperial Couple’s day in our woods
On Monday, June 6, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited us here at our C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust in Shinano, northern Nagano Prefecture.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jun 4, 2016
Forest horror led to an honor from ‘foes’
As I write this in my home outside Kurohime, it’s astonishing to realize it has been 36 years since I came to live in the hills of northern Nagano Prefecture.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Dec 5, 2015
All set for our woods’ own horse power
Over the past three years, the C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust has been bringing down people and horses from Tono and Morioka in Iwate Prefecture to help us take out trees we’ve been thinning from our woods here in northern Nagano Prefecture — and lately, too, from the adjoining national forest we’ve...
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