A Prediction Modeling on the Scenic Beauty Estimation of the Forest Trails in Chitou Forest Recreation Area

• Main Authors: Huang, Gueen-Tsung, 黃棍琮
• Other Authors: Ming-Jou Lai, Ju-Yuan Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1997
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72342001660747967220

碩士 === 東海大學 === 景觀學系 === 85 === Woodlands and mountains are precious resources in Taiwan. Theforest resources certainly mean a lot for all residents. It is partly becausethe abundant resources have been widely exploited recent years. A forest usually provides a place to go sightseeing or only for amusement. Virtually, most of people who visit a forest share the former reason. While people have opportunities to go sightseeing, they are trying to relax. Mostly, trails in a forest can provide this effect to people. Thus, trails have been always the most popular spots in forests in Taiwan. Walking along a trail, people could enjoy a nice atmosphere, a nice walk, and the fresh air. Since those trails are so highly emphasized, the condition of a trail become a very important task for the administration. If they want the tourists feel their sincerity in maintaining trails'' quality, undoubtedly, they have to try to keep them under a regular condition. However, landscape is part of amenity resources and though precious, it is uncountable. This essence makes the scheme of a forest a tough task to the administrators. They have to be prepared to understand both people''s likes and dislikes. Then, they could take it as a reference for either scheme or any possibility of land policy. Unfortunately, compare to other countries'' experiences, our forests are going to a worse situation as the number of tourists is rapidly increasing. Thus, this research also involves in a realm that concerns about that whether if we have certain educating program or specific knowledge of view design could do anything good for our forest resources. Taking documents relevant to Scenic Resources Evaluating Methods as references, this research ultimately used the Scenic Beauty Estimation (SBE method) of Psychophysical Paradigm. Prognostication paradigm of trails'' scenic beauty was established both by the way of surveying tourists'' likes and evaluating constituents around this district. In addition, questionnaires are also used. By doing this, we could know that whether if subjects'' willingness of safeguarding the environment have any bond to their different social or economic backgrounds. By evaluating subjects'' different social and economic backgrounds and their common sense of forest resources, this research come to the result: 1. The aspect of scenic beauty a. Neither subjects'' different ages, nor gender reasons would make any significance to their favorite place along a trail in a forest. Yet, any reason of the list would show subjects'' diversities: different social backgrounds, different inhabiting places, different regular time to go outing per year, or different abilities of recognizing trees. 2. The subjects'' willingness of maintaining a forest''s quality a. Subject''s different social backgrounds, ages, inhabiting places, regular time for going outing, abilities of recognizing trees, would make their willingness different. Yet, gender reasons would not. b. The subjects'' ages, regular time for going outing, and their abilities of recognizing trees are plus relevant to what part they prefer along the trails. 3. The material and type of tracks The subjects would prefer the trail made of tortuous plank and is in a slope. 4. The research finds a regression prediction model when using 11 factors in it. And the predict ability of the model is pretty high (R2=0.85457) According to this research, the administrators should be aware of some facts in managing and administrating the scenic quality of artificial devices of a forest: 1. The green view of a trail is quite important. 2. It is worthy considering to implant increasingly of flowers on both sides of a trail. 3. The area of Meng-tsung Bamboo should be the first place to consider having a trail. 4. The greater trunk trees and weighty arbors should be considered to be implanted if any amusement park is planned. 5. Building trails may include artificial devices which are correspond to the whole environment. 【Key words】: Forest , SBE , Trails , Evaluating , Prediction model , Regression , Chitou