Japanese Forestry Students 



these young men are in charge of professor kitao moroto of the forestry school of the tokyo imperial 



university of japan 



JAPANESE FOREST SCHOOL 



EXCELLENT work is being done 

 in training foresters at the 

 Forestry School of the Tokyo 

 Imperial LTniversity in Japan, 

 which is in charge of Professor Dr. 

 Kitao Moroto. 



"The forests attached to the college 

 are eight in number," says Dr. Moroto 

 in a letter to American Forestry, " two 

 in Tokio-Fu, one in Chiba Prefecture, 

 one in Hokkavido, one in Formosa, two 

 in Corea, and one in Sachalen. The 

 sum of the area of these forests is about 

 three hundred thousand acres (300,000). 

 The college forest in Chiba Prefecture 

 covers an area of about 5,358 acres and 

 is divided into the Kiosumi and the 

 Okuzan forests by the boundary line 

 of the Provinces of Awa and Kazusa. 

 This forest is intended for use in 

 practical instruction in forestry and for 

 the investigations undertaken by the 

 professors and students in the Fort:stry 

 Department of the College. It is hoped 



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that it may also serve as a model of 

 scientific forest management in this 

 country. 



The Kiyosumi forest attached to the 

 college occupies the southern slopes of 

 Mount Myoken in Awa, where stands 

 the famous temple of Serchoji. The 

 forest, comprising an area of over 831 

 acres, is situated about 3 miles north 

 of Amatsu-cho, on the southern coast 

 of the Province, its highest point having 

 an elevation of about 1,000 feet above 

 the sea level. The Forest zone belongs 

 to that of broad leaved evergreen trees, 

 and the most important forest trees here 

 to be found are sugi (cryptomeria) 

 japonica Bon and Momi (aboris firma). 

 The former are the result of planting 

 and extend over about 490 acres. The 

 latter being natural occurs as a pure 

 wood, or as the over- wood of coppice 

 woods with standards. Most of the 

 remaining portion of the forests consists 

 of coppice woods which are composed 



