From 29th to 30th October, four students and two associate professor/lecturer at Graduate School of Disaster Resilience and Governance of University of Hyogo participated in the study tour. Hosts were two different person/organization (Kita-Okamoto in Ichijima-cho and Hiramatsu District Forest Club in Kasuga-cho) who are engaging in forest management. Even though their sites and activities may be different, their goals is the same: to make the community safer and vitalized through forest management. By actually walking through the forest under management, the participants were able to feel how humans can build relations with nature, and how significant such efforts are. The participating students asked questions like: “What age group do you mean by saying “young generation”? (answer: in their 50s and 60s!)”; “How do you know who the owners are of those forests? (answer: use resources such as old maps and land registration results, but can be managed as community’s property as a whole to smoothen the work)”; and “Where are the timbers from thinning activities going?”, which made the participants understand more deeply about each initiative.
Additionally, harvesting activity of black beans (delicacy of Tamba!) and potatoes, walks in the forest, and meals with local ingredients. The Tamba City Study Tour is a place where study as well as communication with local residents and beautiful food.
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