mount_fuji_historical_survey 1.kmz

Takamarubi Overlay

Kenmarubi Overlay

Aokigahara Overlay

Aoki_site 1_Saiko

Aoki_Site 2_Motos-ko

Plantation cypress near lava flow

Large cypress stump

Evidence of logging: two stumps in the foreground, one in the back

Access road running near the edge of the lava flow

Fire break/old road between Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures

Grass mowed to maintain common land rights

Aoki_site 3_near grassland

Log left after cutting

Extensive coppicing

Group of small stumps: evidence of thinning to increase ease of logging cypress trees

Large cypress stump on Aokigahara lava flow

Remnants of charcoal furnace, near heavily coppiced oak (mizunara) near Aokigahara lava flow.

Bundle of cut logs near bigger stumps, used to carry out larger timber

Aoki_Site 4_Vicinity of Wind Cave

Sign states area is “old growth natural forest,” which is not true judging by size and age of trees.

Stumps, possibly indicating logging

Ken_site 1_

Power station and power lines that run along the old trolley route

Mossy logs felled during forest thinning

Old trolley road from postwar period

Rotted red pine stump

Ken_Site 2_Shrines

Pile of cut logs behind shrine

Shrine with small wooded area and stack of wood

Shrine with small playground and grassy area

Shrine on lava flow

Small shrine near railroad.

Taka_Site 1_Near Nashigahara

Plantation in which trees are planted every year by elementary school students

Large cut trees

Secondary trunks removed to make way for extraction of timber (observed at many sites on lava flow)

Planted enju (pagoda trees)

Coppicing near Takamarubi

Taka_Site 2_Harimomi

Tagged, numbered harimomi (tiger-tail spruce) tree. All harimomi trees are tagged for study.

Natural monument sign, forbidding tampering with the area

Very old stump near harimomi

Stumps and evidence of cutting and coppicing in the area

Relatively large, thick coppiced trees, probably not cut for thirty to forty years

Aokigahara

Kenmarubi

Takamarubi