北海道大学ポプラ並木
Century-old poplar row on a shaded woodchip path, rebuilt tree by tree after a typhoon tore through its canopy.
This guide to the poplar avenue at Hokkaido University in Sapporo starts with a number the foresters kept for nearly a century: fifty trees in a straight double row behind the science building. It follows what happened when a 2004 typhoon tore through, felling nineteen trees and forcing crews to cut eight more for safety, and how the university's tally of survivors turned out to include a quiet fix. Look up at the canopy today and you're standing among two generations at once, some trees dating to the nineteen-tens and others grown from grafts of the ones that fell. Walk the eighty-meter woodchip path in winter or summer for very different views of the row.
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