Learning how to make a forestry road from Master Okahashi -san

Hokkaido Self-cutting Forester Training School
Learning from Mr. Kiyotaka Okahashi, a self-cutting forester in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, how to create an unbreakable work road
Advisor (founder) of Seiko Forestry Co., Ltd., which has been managing forests in Yoshino Forestry for generations. About 1,900 ha of forest.
Mr. Okahashi became acutely aware of the need to improve the road network and direct management (self-logging) in order to revitalize the Yoshino forestry industry. Since then, he has built up a track record of creating work roads and is now managing new forests in traditional forestry areas.
In keeping with Yoshino Forestry's tradition of long-term selective logging, thinning (repeated thinning, with less than 20% of the trees being cut each time) is transported by a 2-ton truck while laying a work road with a 3-ton mini excavator. are doing.
▼NPO Self-cutting Forestry Promotion Association for Realizing Sustainable Environmentally Symbiotic Forestry
Based on the problems and challenges of forestry policies that promote large-scale forestry, the Association for the Promotion of Self-cutting Forestry
We are an NPO that promotes “self-cutting forestry,” which is sustainable and environmentally symbiotic forestry.
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