THE DECLINE OF FOREST OWNER'S MIND AND REORGANIZATION OF FOREST RESOURCES POLICY

最近，由于台风和鹿的破坏，以及国内木材价格的下跌，森林所有者的森林经营意识一直在下降。我们对九州的森林协会合作社进行了问卷调查，了解森林所有者的森林经营情况。在九州林业活跃度很高的地区，有超过20%的被砍伐的森林没有被种植。我们调查了一些林区，在奇塔地区的奇塔南关盆地和高知州的丽和库盆地，研究了砍伐后未被种植的主要因素。首先是林业工人短缺。林业工作者不断衰落，年龄越来越大，由于劳动力短缺，林主在砍伐森林后无法自行植树。他们希望通过林协合作社或森林发展公司植树，但也因为森林劳动力短缺而无法做到。第二，人工林砍伐后的再造林无利可图，因为木材价格下跌和鹿的破坏。

Recently forest owner's minds for forest management have been declining through the damages by like a typhoon and deer, and the fall in price of domestic timber. We can find the non planted forest after felling artificial forest.We had a quetiOnnaire survey to forest association cooperatives in Kyushu, to know forest operations by forest owners. And we found more 20% of fallen forest have been not planted though forestry activity is very high in Kyushu.We investigated some forestry areas to study primary factors of leaving non planted after felling, in Qita Nangun Basin in Qita Prefecture and Reihoku Basin in Kochi Prefecture.As a result, factors of leaving not planted are following. First is shortage of forest workers. Forest workers have been declining and becoming older, so forest owner could not plant tree by themselves after felling their forest because of labor shortage. They would hope to plant tree by forest association cooperative or the Forest Development Corporation, but they could not do it because of forest labor shortage also.Second is that reforestation after felling of artificial forest is unprofitable, because of falling in timber price and damages by deer.