Ranzan

4 June '16

On Sunday we took a field trip to Ranzan where we visited a maintained/preserved forest.  Volunteers called "Green Rangers" help trim, cut down, and plant trees, and manage the ecosystem.  Pictured below is a shrine at the entrance where many Green Rangers pray to the forest god every time they enter and exit the facility.

Look at all the beautiful nature (and interesting/scary bugs)!

Mushroom logs!  Apparently after the administration at Willamette University shut down Zena farm, they also bulldosed the logs and small garden.  Luckily the green houses were preserved, though they bulldosed down some greenhouse doors too apparently, but I am hoping to get the mushroom logs up and running again!

And a hornet nest with squirmy larvae and everything...

Our translator, Lindsey, playing a Native American style flute handmade out of bamboo by one of the Green Rangers who showed us around Ranzan.

Fish chips from the pizza place we went to for dinner.  The restaurant was started by ASP students (American Studies Program: students from TIU come to Willamette and take classes there)!

For now,

Anna