우리나라 100대 명산에 포함되고 천혜 자연환경을 갖추고 있지만 충청남도 내 휴양림 중 이용률이 저 조한 칠갑산자연휴양림을 연구대상지로 하여 휴양림 활성화와 재방문 의사를 높여 건강한 여가 활동 을 선도하는 운영‧관리 방안을 제시하고자 본 연구를 수행하였다. 칠갑산 휴양림 방문객 250명에게 총 101개로 구성된 설문지를 자기기입방식으로 배포하여 200부를 회수하였고 인구통계학적 특성 및 이 용행태, 재방문의사 결정 중요요인 간 상관관계와 미치는 영향 등을 알아보기위해 빈도분석, Varimax- 직각회전, Bartlett의 구형성 검정, 크론바흐 알파, 독립표본 t-검정, 일원분산분석, Scheffe’s 사후검증, Pearson상관관계분석, 다중회귀분석을 하였다. 연구결과 휴양림 방문객들의 이용만족도는 대체로 양 호하였지만 개선이 필요한 사항에 대한 질문에서 안전 및 환경에 대해 다소 부족한 것으로 나타났다. 제안 사항인 효율적인 운영·관리 방안으로 레크리에이션시설(등산학교·트레킹지원센터 등) 및 프로 그램(산림치유·숲해설 등)이 필요하다고 사료되며, 환경을 고려한 휴양림 내 추가 식재, 색다른 경관 환경(소규모정원 등)을 조성하여 특색 있는 휴양림으로 탈바꿈할 필요가 있다는 결론을 도출하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 건강한 여가활동 촉진, 휴양림 활성화 및 재방문의도 증대에 기여하기 위해 칠갑 산 자연휴양림에 필요한 중요 요인을 찾아서 제안하고 있다.

본 연구는 국립용현자연휴양림일대 산림의 식생조사를 통하여 산림의 군락분류와 식생구조를 연구하였다. 2014년 4월부터 9월까지 약 26개의 방형구(20×20m)를 설치하여 식생조사를 실시하였다. 그 결과 신갈나무군락, 굴참나무군락, 고로쇠나무군락의 3개 군락으로 구분되었으며, 신갈나무군락은 소나무군과 전형군, 고소뢰나무군락은 회나무군과 전 형군의 4개 군으로 세분되었다. 국립용현자연휴양림일대 산림식생유형은 3개 군락 4개군의 분류체계를 가졌으며, 총 5개의 식생단위로 구분되었다. 식생단위별 중요치 분석을 보면 교목 및 관목의 목본식물에서 식생단위 1은 소나무 (65.1%), 식생단위 2는 신갈나무(73.6%), 식생단위 3은 굴참나무(75.1%), 식생단위 4는 회나무(33.3%), 식생단위 5는 비목나무(21.7%)가 높게 나왔으며, 초본층에서 식생단위 1은 주름조개풀(19.3%), 식생단위 2는 실새풀(16.9%), 식생단위 3은 땅비싸리(17.3%), 식생단위 4와 5는 개별꽃이 각각 14.8%, 24.7%로 높게 나왔다. 지표종 분석결과 총 33종이 유의한 종으로 분석되었다(p<0.05).

Recent economic and income growth in Korea has caused people to seek healthier and happier lives. Forests are seen as spaces that provide tourism and recreation. The Korea forest service and local governments are developing and designating recreational forests but previous studies on the subject have only covered customer satisfaction and how forests are used. As such, the current study aims to find issues with designation criteria for recreational forests used by Gwangju city in Gyeonggi province and suggest improvements to the system. Site E was deemed the most adequate in evaluations of five candidate site. The criteria used in the evaluations were problematic due to (1) a lack of differentiating power in evaluation items, (2) blanket coverage of score ranges, (3) a lack of additional points for special sites, and (4) unclear evaluation indices. Based on the identified issues, the current study suggests introducing additional points and clearly detailing evaluation indices and items to enhance the evaluation of recreational forest candidate sites.

This study sought to contribute to the revitalization of local economy by developing a natural recreation forest, which is the base of ecotourism recreation, through utilizing forest resources and the natural environment of Gwangju-si. The study conducted a feasibility assessment through on-site surveys such as the suitability of the candidate sites, location analysis, and possibility of damage to the forest, before developing recreation forest sites in Gwangju-si and, based on the result, selected appropriate subject sites. The candidates for this study were 5 forest sites such as one site in the Mokheon-dong area, two in the Docheok-myeon area, and one in the Toechon-myeon area. For this study, the current status of the natural recreation forest was surveyed, its feasibility index and assessment process were investigated, and the local status and related regulations of Gyeonggi-do and Gwangju-si were reviewed. The final subject sites were selected after feasibility assessment utilizing assessment index in order to evaluate the candidate sites. The feasibility assessment was conducted after three separate on-site surveys for each candidate site between October 2018 and January 2019 utilizing “The Feasibility Assessment Criteria for Natural Recreation Forest (Notification 2018-71)” of the Korean Forest Service. The items instrumental to the feasibility assessment were classified into landscape, location, water system, induction of recreation, and development condition; the assessment was made after redefining each item into detailed items. Through this process, the Usan-ri area was selected as the final site for developing natural recreation forest, having obtained more than 100 points according to “The Feasibility Assessment Criteria for Natural Recreation Forest” of the Korean Forest Service. In order to develop natural recreation forest in the Usan-ri area in the future, further discussion is necessary with the relevant departments in consideration of the degree of ecological zoning map.

This study was carried out to investigate the vascular plants of the protected area for forest genetic resource conservation in the National Yonghyeon natural recreation forest. The vascular plants collected 7 times (from February to September 2014) were consist of total 460 taxa; 95 families, 280 genera, 398 species, 3 subspecies, 50 varieties and 9 forms respectively. The 6 taxa of Korean endemic plants and 8 taxa of Korean rare plants were investigated. The floristic regional indicator plants found in this area were 43 taxa comprising 7 taxa of grade Ⅳ, 7 taxa of grade Ⅲ, 12 taxa of grade Ⅱ, 17 taxa of grade Ⅰ. The naturalized plants were 39 taxa, therefore naturalized ratio was 8.5%. 460 taxa listed consist of 189 taxa (41.1%) of edible plants, 155 taxa (33.7%)of medicinal plants, 177 taxa (38.5%) of pasture plants, 52 taxa (11.3%) of ornamental plants, 17 taxa (3.7%)of timber plants, 12 taxa (2.6%) of fiber plants and 3 taxa (0.7%) of industrial plants. The vegetation status of investigated area was comparatively well conserved, but human-induced damage is increasingly greater. Therefore, a long-term monitoring of vascular plants and vegetation movement must become accomplished.

As a part of research to improve the satisfaction of residents on natural recreation forests near/within a city, the recognition of the residents was investigated and evaluated by using five-point Likert scale or frequency analysis for the plan of Mt. Wora natural recreation forest in Jinju city, which included the awareness, importance, preference, and visit intention of the residents. Until now, the personal goals of most visitors at Mt. Wora have been exercising or walking, and showed different from those of visitors at recreation forests with lots of recreational facilities and natural resources. Also the satisfaction was 3.6 and tended to be lower than that at natural recreation forests. The awareness and necessity of natural recreation forest were 3.3 and 4.0 respectively. As a result, the awareness was lower than the necessity though most respondent (84.5%) had already visited and experienced natural recreation forest before this survey. In the importance of facilities and programs, recreation/relaxation places, family accommodation, education, and leisure and sports were 4.2, 3.7, 3.7, and 3.4 respectively. The result shows a feature that the education was equal/similar to the family accommodation and the leisure and sports was over 3.0. In the preference of the types of accommodation and outdoor stay, the frequency of bungalow was 57.4% and higher than others. And then the frequency of autocamping and glamping were 36.5% and 32.9% respectively, and higher than that of camping. It indicates that users prefer more convenient types to typical/common types. The awareness and necessity of forest culture education were 3.1 and 4.1 respectively. The awareness of leisure and sports facilities was 3.2. The preference of adventures (zip line, eco-adventure etc.) was 3.4 and higher than those of others.

This study was carried out to analyze conceptional structure between visitor's satisfaction and loyalty in the national natural recreation forests. The results of this study showed that facility, natural resources and view, staff service of recreation forest had positive effect on visitor's satisfaction. Reservation system, accessibility, and usage fee of recreation forest was not related to visitor's satisfaction. In addition, visitor's satisfaction was found to have positive effect on visitor's loyalty such as revisiting intention and word of mouth. As a result, managers of recreation forest need to enhance visitor's satisfaction, to improve rate of revisiting intention and to incite word of mouth through building management strategy.