View of landscape

You can observe typical natural forest around here, mixed forest on the slope. Pure stand of mire forest dominated by Picea glehnii is distributed on flat area of the valley.　Water quality of stream water is also influenced by watershed topography.

Reference:

• Ogawa et al. 2006. Relationship of topography to surface water chemistry with particular focus on nitrogen and organic carbon solutes within a forested watershed in Hokkaido, Japan. Hydrological Processes 20:251-265