Ada;Okinawa;Japan

A hillside with partially burned trees and vegetation north of Ada, Okinawa. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Lithosols from sandstones and phyllites with slopes of approximately 40% being cleared and in various stages of cultivation; the stump patch in lower right is now in sweet potatoes, the patch to the left was burned earlier, and the one above is now on fire. This is in the hilly to mountainous section immediately north of Ada."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "A part of Ibu valley above the village of that name, about a half mile north of Ada, Okinawa. This shows ripe rice in the floodplain, the Ada-Oku trail along the stream channel, and poor forest on the Lithosols of the upland. The light green patches on the uplands are ferns."