Abstract
In 2009, "Forest and Forestry Revitalization Plan" was developed in order to resolve the recent issues challenging forestry in Japan. Human resource development is one of the key policies which adopted in this plan. Japanese type forester is one of the objectives which are developed and it is expected to function as a leading expert of local forest management. In order to grasp the actual activity of the Japanese type forester candidate, we conducted a questionnaire survey for apprentice forester of prefectural officials. As a result, the main activities of apprentice forester, was found to have been changed to support activities for the forest management plan from support activities for municipal forest management plan. In addition, it was found that by age, there are differences in the abilities and actual activity. Especially, we found that the person of apprentice forester elderly, is doing to interact with a variety of stakeholders, and are expected to be held by a number of the capabilities of the forestry-related. In the future, that through their work, to carry out capacity building and building networks is desirable.
