Land Evalution and Conservation Focused on the Vegetation in Shirakami Mountains

Abstract

Land development requires a plane of conservation corresponding to the land potential.
This study attempts to provide an integrated analysis of the land potential in terms of the vegetation, the geography and the habitat of animal. We focused on the Shirakami mountains, known by social problems caused by imprudent plan of destruction of a primeval forest of beech trees for constructing the road, as the sample area to consider using the mesh method.
In general, since the good environment for plants and animals is also valuable in term of forestry utility. We successfully acquired basic data available for the composite assessment of the natural environment including the preservation of the wild animals in the Shirakami mountains.