抄録
Senjogahara Moor had been visited botanists and many tourists for a long time and is the one of the moor where relations with the human being are particularly strong in Japan. This study clarified changes of conservation consciousness on Senjogahara Moor from the Meiji period to the Showa period by various documents. As a result, it became clear as follows: (1) Importance of Senjogahara Moor was already discovered by botanists in the Meiji period, and conservation consciousness already occurred to botanists during the Taisho period. (2) The national park administration kept conservation consciousness continuously while being affected by the thought of the sightseeing promotion, from the designation of the national park to about 1965. (3) Senjogahara Moor was recognized as a place of the comfortable scenery and the tourism development from the Taisho period, conservation consciousness is not watched besides botanists and the national park administration until about 1965. (4) Change to positive conservation consciousness that national park administration took conservation measures was watched from about 1965, and it changed measures of other people and organizations.
