Abstract
Bamboo forests have provided materials for daily livelihood or craft products and bamboo shoot. However, the new function of bamboo forest like creating appropriate landscapes has gradually been in great demand. Our study targeted bamboo forests in Saga-Arashiyama area, Kyoto city, which is one of the most famous tourist spot, and we clarified changes of distribution of bamboo forests since Meiji era, present management status of these forests and policy for conserving bamboo forests by local government. In the study area, strict legal control from 1967 succeeded to preserve gross area of bamboo forests. Meanwhile, some bamboo forests were abandoned without enough management practices, because bamboo materials factories and bamboo shoot farmers were in stagnation. We attempted to make alternative management measures for landscape from stand surveys on best-managed bamboo forests. In discussion, we concluded that new policy supporting landscape management practices by landowners or stakeholders was needed.
