Trampling sensitive vegetation around nature trails is one of the most serious problem of destroying some alpine or sub-alpine grassland vegetation in Japan. And trampling occurs in case visitors don't know the weakness of the vegetation, or avoid some dangerous situation or crowds. To solve this problem, we researched the relationship between the sense & knowledge and the attribution of visitors after climbing Mt. Shibutsu, of which trails are suffered from serious destruction because of trampling and erosions. As a result, we cleared that difficulty on the trail from the peak to Yamanohana was felt regardless of the attribution, and almost all visitor felt the danger on it, and particular age groups and size group had feeling concerning trampling. These suggest there may be potentials of trampling because of it. We concluded this difficulty must be informed to all visitors in order to avoid entering this trail. Similarly we also concluded coordination of flow of large-size visitor groups and on-site lecture are needed to conserve Mt. Shibutu.
