







27 seedlings were planted !

Although I didn’t make much money through my blog, I bought 27 Douglas fir seedlings for $66.66 and planted in my back yard in April 21st 2019 !

I cannot even receive the money that I earned through my blog because the value amount is not enough for Google Adsense to make remittance to me. If I thought of this operation as a business, buying those seedlings was just increased costs and I would be in the red. But, I am very glad to be able to plant trees !

I attached some pictures of the seedlings that I planted.

What function do Japanese people expect from forests ?

Also, I made a figure below from interesting statistics about what Japanese people expected from forests. The figure below shows what function Japanese people expect from forests from 1976 to 2011. The vertical axis represents the ranking of each forest function and the horizontal axis shows the survey year.

The statistics are from the public opinion survey carried out nationwide by Cabinet Office in Japan from 1976 to 2011 every 3 to 4 year. The questionnaire with multiple answers allowed asked the people in Japan who were over 20 year old about what function you expect from forests. The latest 2011 survey had the sample size of 3,000 originally and 1,843 people in Japan answered the questionnaire out of the 3,000. (If you are interested in how the survey was conducted in more details, please go to the page of “The public opinion survey regarding forests and life”.)

Ranking in the figure is based on the percentage of the Japanese people who expect each function from forests. The most expected forest function by Japanese people is to prevent natural disasters such as landslide and flooding. About 48% of Japanese people had the expectation as a forest function according to 2011 survey.

CO2 absorption is the second most expected function with increasing awareness of global warming. Also, forest is considered as an important source of water.

Interestingly, timber production was at the 6th in 2011 in the ranking while the function was seen as the second most important in 1976. The way of thinking changes with the times.

I want to keep planting trees for all the forest functions in the figure ! I hope I will be able to enlarge the scale of my reforestation project through the advertisement income from my blog.





