Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clear the relationship between the programs of nature conservation work and the relaxation effect which were planned by city residents and a local administration in a secondary forest in autumn and winter. As a result using POMS (Profile of Mood States), the following became clear. 1)Stress of participants are reduced and motivations of them rises adversely by performing nature conservation work, in spite of the participants were didnt have any stress before conservation works. 2)For a participant which has high score of stress and low score of motivation before, stress is easy to decrease, and motivations are easy to increase. 3)A person who has a little experience of participation can expect a relaxation effect by activity in autumn and winter. The nature conservation work that utilized nature in the Satochi-Satoyama of a city was effective in relaxing a participant, and the relations between programs of nature conservation work with the relaxation effect became clear.
