The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
INDEX="164"
NAME="Training 200 people to be forestry workers"
TYPE="活動助成,"
YEAR="2012年度,"
AREA="日本全国,東北,"
KIND="NPO,"
ORG="Iwate Reforestation Study Group"
Iwate Reforestation Study Group
Training 200 people to be forestry workers
Activity grant
- Project Description
Many forestry areas affected by the tsunami remain untouched. Iwate Prefecture is one of the prefectures in Honshu that has a forested areas, but there are very few people here who can use chainsaws and other forestry tools. Even if the forest areas affected by the tsunami are restored, and even if the devastated man-made forests are regenerated, people are needed who can carry out forestry work safely and properly. At present, there are no places that can teach forest owners or ordinary citizens. This project will establish a venue for training people in the techniques of forest recovery and regeneration, and, over a period of 3 years train 200 people to do forestry work.
- Fields
- Preservation of surface soil and forestsPreservation of biodiversity and ecosystem
- Grant year
- FY2012 Activity Grants
- Grant term
- 3 years
October 2012 - September 2015
- Grant amount
- 4,950,000 yen
- Activity region
- Morioka City, Kuji City, Ofunato City, Otsuchi-chou, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Overview of the Organization
- Representative
- Fumio Saitoh, Director
- Establishment year
- 2003
- Establishment Purpose
- Carry out volunteer activities to regenerate and protect forest that has been devastated. Specifically, the project will center on the thinning (care) of 30- to 50-year-old cedar forests that were the worst devastated in the region. To make this activity effective, we will reach for groups who have knowledge of forest creation and safe and proper work methods.
- Main regions of project activity
- Morioka City, Hachimantai City, Iwate-gun, Shiwa-gun
- Staff
- 2 full-time members, 12 part-time members, 133 full members
- Annual operating budget
- 2.02 million yen in 2009, 4.27 million yen in 2010, 5.13 million yen in 2011
- WEB site
- http://www.eins.rnac.ne.jp/~issk/
- Affiliated organizations
- Kokuji Makino Kumiai (Kuji City), Matsusaki Ai Hayashi Koueki-kai (Ofunato City), NPO Kirikirikoku (Ootuchi-chou)
- Man activities
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- (1) Training of personnel who have knowledge and skills for creating forests: Setting up a "Forest Volunteer Course" and training people in forestry work skills.
- (2) Use of timber from forest thinning: Turning the timber from forest thinning into a resource. Producing firewood, charcoal, lumber and cultivating mushrooms can all contribute to a reduction in CO2.
- (3) Sending instructors to sites: Instructors are sent to instruct at various local training courses. This work is widening the ring of forest regeneration.
- (4) Disaster recovery support: Holding courses to train people how to safely manage their forests in devastated areas, supplying timber from forest thinning, and other support than uses expertise.