The Relation between Forest Management of Agro-forest and the Owner's Place of Residence in Santome-shinden

Abstract

This study refer to the characteristic feature of the spatial change of the agro-forests attached to the farmers residential unit in Santome-Shinden district in Saitama prefecture. This district is famous for its formal land division pattern of residence-farm-forest unit. The change of spatial pattern was analyzed through images expressing the relation of land ownership and degree of maintenance activity. Over laying method including land use activity map, aerial photograph and actual use activity map was used for judging the extent of qualitative feature of the management activity of forest land. It was made clear that the relation of degree of managed qualty can be shown by the length of distance to the lot from residence, and the extent of absentee of landlord on the site is strongly related with the degree of roughness in the context of landscape of subdivision lot of individual copse.