model forest in Indonesia

I was invited to go on the field trip with the forestry crowd in Jogya.  It was very interesting... surprisingly. 

This is a photo of how the landscape looked in the model forest area in 1998.  I cannot imagine what was going thru the community's mind when they cut that last tree.  This area had been completely forested with a variety of trees including teak.  The government of the day insisted that all of the trees be harvested.  It was in 1998 that the government changed and the new president was concerned with being sustainable.

In 2004 they decide to replant and this photo shows the pegging process indicating where each tree would be planted.

Here they are transporting the tree seedlings to the planting area.

This is where the teak seedlings were started before bringing them to the mountain to plant.