The object of this paper is to establish location characteristics of existing isolated forests in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture. For this purpose, a map survey using geographical maps and landownership maps was conducted on all isolated forests in Sanda city. The results of this survey are follows; 1) Isolated forests are located on two types of geographical features. One is on a river terrace, plateau or hillsid ea,nd most of these forests are large in scale. The others are on various other geographical features, and most of those forests are small. 2) Both the hillside-typ eforests located on a hillside, which form the green frame of this region, and the other-type forests as we called them, which are not located near shrines, tombs, ruins, ponds or rivers, are considered to be highly likel yto disappear in the future. 3) Especially, the private other-type forests located on the boundary between human settlements and farmland, are considered most likely to disappear. So the politica lpreservation of these two types' isolated forests (i.e., hillside-type and the othertype) is of urgent importance.
