Environment | OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Mar 30, 2020
We live in neither East nor West
by C.W. Nicol
With COVID-19 pulling the world apart, it's the people, from healthworkers to thoughtful neighbors that can bring it back together.
Environment | OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Jul 2, 2016
The Imperial Couple's day in our woods
by C.W. Nicol
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. Myself and members of the trust's staff who needed to know were informed of the impending visit three months before, but ...
Environment | OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Jun 4, 2016
Forest horror led to an honor from 'foes'
by C.W. Nicol
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. Back then, as I still am, I was eager to learn more about the wildlife ...
Environment | OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Dec 5, 2015
All set for our woods' own horse power
by C.W. Nicol
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 ...