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Proposal for the establishment of LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability") in the forest of Shinshu (Nagano)

The forest in Nagano prefecture covers an area of about 1.06 million hectares (ha), approximately 78% of the total area of the prefecture. Privately owned forest accounts for 680 thousand ha, 64 % of the total forest in Nagano. Of the privately owned forest, 330 thousand ha are artificial forests, such as Sugi (Japanese cedar) and Karamatsu (Japanese larch) and they account for 48 % of the private

ly owned forest. These forests need artificial treatment, like thinning (the selective removal of trees). Sugi and Karamatsu forests that are over 31 years old account for 170 thousand ha, 53 % of the artificial forests. These forests need forest management by thinning, extraction and use of tinned lumber. Under these circumstances, we believe that building a sustainable society is impossible unless we change and adopt new measures of how we use our forests. For this reason, we at GREEN LAB took the first step by launching a new industry to recreate our culture (lifestyle) and maintain it in a mountain village in the forests of Nagano. An outline of our activity is described in the pages that follow.

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