Analysis of functions of the use of school forest : from "Present situation survey on school forest"

This paper discusses the use of a school forest. As a result, distance of the forest from this school building had a great influence on its use. The rate of use of the forest was high when the forest was near the school and low when it was far. In addition, about a kinds of trees, only in the case of a conifer, the use rate was low, and the school forest including the broadleaf tree was high in the use rate. Regarding the kinds of trees in the forest, the use rate was low only for the case of conifers, and, for all broadleaf trees, it was high. In the setting year of the school forest, the use rate was high new one, and the use rate of the school forest installed after the world war II in the early days was a result to be particularly low. On the other hand, it was not able to judge a reasonable scale about the area scale of the school forest. In comparison with the school forest installed in an purpose for fund, the use rate of the school forest installed in an education purpose was higher. The use rate is high in the case with the support from the outside of the school. In fact. it may contribute to improvement use rate in future to relate a school to the new support subject such as citizen's groups