Arbor Festival

Left: Remediated soil
Right: Appearance after planting

Dowa has begun using remediated soil and fertilizer made from manure obtained from a pig farm in nearby Kosaka Town to prepare land for afforestation. This is an effort to recycle usable materials from the region through afforestation. When an “Arbor Festival” was held, the town’s elementary and junior high school students, local associations, and associations for the elderly turned out to plant the trees.
Beginning in 2006, Dowa will be advised by “the man who planted 30 million trees,” the noted Dr. Akira Miyawaki, professor emeritus of Yokohama National University and director of the Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology (JISE). Dowa plans to implement the “appropriate posture for future afforestation (vegetation) of land free from human influence” proposed by the professor.