This paper aims to clarify the conservation and management system by multiple local stakeholders to adapt the transition of function and use of the coastal forest. We focused on the coastal forests of Kanazawa City with recreational facilities, to understand the transition of coastal forest based on local community, and the establishment of a management system for conservation and use of forest reserve. The coastal forest development projects have been carried out by coastal villages since the Meiji period, and the current forests were formed through large-scale afforestation projects promoted as a national policy in 1950’s, and many of them are owned by the city or prefecture. The management and use system are characterized by a system of recreation facility management led by the local community association and users, in conjunction with coastal forest conservation activities. The park golf users as the main management community have enabled activities related to the conservation of coastal forest reserve to be carried out as part of the daily management of the golf course and has played an important role in establishing a system of voluntary coastal forest conservation by multiple local stakeholders.
