Abstract
Recently, efforts have been made throughout the world to realize suitable forest management, and appropriate approaches toward this end have been sought at the practical level. One of the most remarkable movements is the Model Forest (MF) movement which was advocated by Canada at the Earth summit in 1992 and aimed at realizing sustainable forest management focusing on citizen participation. The MF movement has since attracted a great deal of world-wide attention, with Kyoto Prefecture also having begun its own work regarding MF management. In this paper, for developing a style of MF management suitable for Kyoto prefecture, we considered (1) what MF is and (2) the present condition of citizen's groups whose activities have something to do with the natural environment of Kyoto Prefecture. The results were as follows: (1) the role of citizens' groups in MF management in Kyoto Prefecture was developed, and (2) points which should be considered when MF is developed in the near future were identified.
