Abstract
Log demand in Kyushu area has increased affected by scale expansion of lumber factories and new demand for domestic wood of a plywood factory and biomass power factories after 2000. The purpose of this paper are to figure out the current situation of log distributor such as log auction markets and its business sites where newly established or has changed, and changes on management policy of Forest Owners’Cooperatives（FOC）in Ooita Prefecture under the period of log demand expansion. The result of interviewing research with ten log distributors, sale through log auction is still major in some lumber production area, quantity of negotiation basis sale and log procurement by purchasing of stumpages has been increased in most of log auction market. However, the result of interviewing research with thirteen FOCs is that FOCs tend to have increase clear-cut operation, and their management was affected the changes of forest plan policy and subsidization more than expanding demand. On the other hand, the top five FOCs on timber production has an anxiety about planting and nursing labor shortage, FOCs has no capacity to have those operation on the site clear-cut out of their planning. Some log distributor has been started planting services on the site they had clear-cutting, there is still concern that decrement of log supply in the future.
