The purposes of this study are developing a stress index for each individual major trail in the national parks and contribute to establishing a park management policy based on scientific analyses using the index. We collected data from 144 sections of trails in national parks, conducted the Delphi survey and factor analysis, and generated the stress index by standardizing scores of factors contributing to the stress for each trail. As aresult, total eight factors contributing to the stress were considered and four of them, i.e. the amount of visits, the effect of visits, the degree of trail destruction, and species diversity, were selected to generate the stress index. How to weigh factors was determined by their importance obtained in the second Delphi survey and the average from a 5 point Likert scale. Then, the cumulative probabilities from the standardized scores were graded into five groups. In conclusion, there were twenty trails from the six national parks including Jirisan, Bukhansan, Deogyusan, Naejangsan, Seoraksan in the first grade which gained over 80 as the stress index.

본 연구의 목적은 대표적인 6개 국립공원에 대하여 자연 및 문화자원의 이용가치와 비이용가치를 이선선택형가상가치평가법을 이용하여 측정하는 것이다. 측정결과 이용가치의 경우높게는 17,208원/1인(설악산국립공원)에서 낮게는 5,758원/1인(태안해안국립공원)의 범주로 나타났다. 또한 비이용가치의 경우 높게는 16,198원/1인(북한산국립공원)에서 낮게는 12,756원/1인(한려해상국립공원)의 범주로 나타났다. 본 연구결과는 국립공원이 현재의 입장료(1,000원/1인)와 국립공원의 유지관리비(3.700원/1인)를 능가하는 상당한 정도의 이용가치와 비이용가치를 창출하고 있다는 사실을 지적해준다. 따라서 국민의 경계적 편익을 유지하기 위해서 정부는 국립공원의 유지. 관리비용을 계속 지원해야만 할 것이다.

The Monitoring System developed in this study was designed to help manage the recreational forests by gathering data on visitors' profiles and their opinions about recreational use and related facilities. This data could identify for changing situations in forest recreation demand as well as providing information on planning the management and use of the forest areas in advance. The standardized questionnaire had contained visitor profiles, activities, distribution of use by area, distribution us by time, duration of the visit, expenditure of visitors and information on visitor satisfaction and motivation. Also, the questionnaire had included the evaluations visitors' perception of facilities in order to identify the importance and performance of the various facilities, such as recreational and educational facilities, accomodations, directional signs as well as infrastructure. The monitoring system was developed in the object-oriented programming (OOP) environment. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 for the program language, Microsoft Access, and Excel program were used to develop the system. The monitoring system was composed of data input, database, and data analysis system. Once data were put into data input system, it automatically transferred to database, and it eventually produced the results of statistical analysis with one step procedure. This study was integrated with facilities and visitor monitoring system to identify the visitor impact at the recreational forests. In addition, this monitoring system would provide necessary and useful background information for management on recreational use of natural resources in a practical manner.