A school teacher posted at Gwaldam, one of the meeting-points of the Garhwal and Kumaon mountain ranges, claims to have found in traditional customs, means to overcome the growing apathy of the people towards conservation of flora in the hills. Through a campaign merged with the customs and values of social life in the hills, Mr Kalyan Singh Rawat has been able to inculcate among the inhabitants of the Pindar Valley, in Chamoli, a humane attachment to trees. This is his second experiment after a tree-plantation drive in the drought-prone Rawdin Valley in Uttarkashi, where he was first posted. The Biology teacher has now started taking time off from his official duties to establish indigenous roots for his green campaign in the Katyur Valley of Bageshwar district of Kumaon.