As the employment situation gets worse, forestry — an industry long plagued by an aging workforce and regarded as an unattractive, low-paying career — is drawing renewed attention.
Meetings held by forestry organizations are attracting a growing number of participants.
"Due to depopulation, there are many mountain forests that have become desolated because they haven't been properly thinned," an official at one group said. "We would like people to return to the countryside."