A Study on the Conservation and Practical Use of Large Scale Urban Forest in Teagu, Korea

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to point out the direction of maintenance of urban forests from the viewpoint of conservation and practical use of the 7 large scale urban forests existed in Teagu, Korea by catching the relationship of consciousness evaluation from the residents and evaluation results of the physical potential of the urban forests. It is shown that the forests are used as a jaunt place same as that in Japan in Edo era. Such kind of historical and cultural background should be considered sufficiently for the maintenance of the forests in the future. Natural environment which has the function of providing urban forests as the background, it is a very important issue to find out the revitalization policy for urban forests based on the conservation of natural environment, because the revitalization of using urban forests, its micro-whether controlling effect and its naturalness supplying effect etc. are becoming actual.