
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.
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.
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. Myself and members of the trust's staff who needed to know were informed of the impending visit three months before, but ...
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. Back then, as I still am, I was eager to learn more about the wildlife ...
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 ...