Private Forest Owners and the Forest Resource Database

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• This paper investigated private forest owners' awareness of the forest resource database, Shinrinbo. The database is used to develop forestry plans and track forestry statistics. There are many discrepancies between the values shown in the database and the actual stands. To clarify forest owners' opinions on the Shinrinbo and related forest information systems, a questionnaire was conducted in Ousumi Regional Forest Planning Area in Kagoshima Prefecture in July 1996 and useful responses were obtained from 793 forest owners. It was found that : (1) 17.9% of forest owners were not aware of Shinrinbo itself. 60.2% were only aware of the name of Shinrinbo but did not know the contents. Only 15.4% indicated that they understood the contents of Shinrinbo. (2) 23.8% of forest owners knew that at least some part of the Shinrinbo data on their forests was wrong. The actual percentage of errors is probably greater, especially for area. Also, the database uses a simple yield table for data estimated before 1970, as the constant table. (3) 18.4% of forest owners clearly indicated a willingness to supply correct information on their forests to the prefectural government. (4) Most forest owners think that the prefectural government, currently managing the Shinrinbo, is not the appropriate organization to manage a forest resources database. The most appropriate manager was thought to be the local forest owners association (70.2%). The role of local forest owners association in private forest practices and local forestry development policy has been increasing, and forest owners' expectation that local forest owners associations should play a role building a database is also high. As there are many small-scale forest owners in Japan, cooperation between owners to develop an accurate forest resource database is extremely important, especially as the role and social expectations of a database are increasing. However, forest owners' awareness of the Shinrinbo is low and awareness of the private Forest Operation Plan even lower. Approximately 90% of forest owners are formally involved in the Forest Operation Plan and obtain several benefits under related laws, for example subsidies and tax reduction, but only 20.6% of forest owners answered that they have a Forest Operation Plan. This suggests that forest owners do not adequately participate in forest planning process. An extension program for forest owners is discussed and improvements suggested for the information system and the method of forest inventory.

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著者

• Yoshida Shigejiro

  Department Of Forest And Forest Products Science Faculty Of Agriculture Kyushu University

• Matsushita Koji

  Division Of Forest Science Graduate School Of Agriculture Kyoto University

• Yoshida Shigejiro

  Department Of Forestry Faculty Of Agriculture Kyushu University

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