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Visiting Characteristics of Nogodan and Sesokpyongjan in Chirisan National Park (지리산 국립공원 노고단과 세석평전의 이용특성)

  • 오구균;조현서;최재길
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.62-69
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    • 1995
  • No. of visitor at Chirisan National Park increased by three times, respectively after seven years comparing to the visitors before construction of the Songsamjae access road in 1988. Fifty percent of visitors at southern and northern rigion of Chirisan National Park visited Nogodan in spring and autumn season. And thirty percent of visitors at Sesokpyongjon accessed from Nogodan, respectively. Visitors at Nogodan and Sesokpyongion were estimated each 410.000 persons and 150.000 persons in 1994. Maximum daily users of shelter and camp ground were each 570 persons in Nogodan and 1, 100 persons in Sesokpyongjon in 1994. The Songsamjae access road in Chirisan National Park increased users' impacts on mountain ridge environment including Nogodan, Sesokpyongjon. etc. Therefore user management including prohibiting camping shall be necessary in order to minimize environmental damage of mountain ridge.

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Herpetofauna of the East Area in Chirisan National Park (지리산국립공원 동부지역의 양서.파충류상)

  • Park, Byung-Sang
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.375-381
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    • 2000
  • 1999년 7월 24일부터 7월 25일까지 지리산국립공원 중 동부지역 일대에서 양서류 및 파충류상을 조사한 결과 양서류는 총 2목 5과 8종 파충류는 1목 3과 6종이 관찰 및 탐문으로 조사되었다 이번 조사에서 두꺼비 1종의 고유종이 관찰되었으며 외래종과 환경부 지정 보호야생동물 및 멸종위기종은 관찰되지 않았다.

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An Assessment on Environment Friendliness of National Park Facilities in Korea (국립공원 시설의 친환경성 평가)

  • 오구균;권태호;정승준
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.44-53
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this paper is to evaluate environmental friendliness for facilities of national park to improve naturalness of national park. We have evaluated environmental friendliness of the facilities in Chirisan national park in terms of resource conservation and environmental integration, which are consisted of 9 and 8 evaluation indicators, respectively. Environmental friendliness of the small facilities was not good due to not using locally obtained materials and natural material, and that of large and complex facilities was bad in the field of excessive damage during construction, inadequate maintenance, use of natural material, locally obtained material, environmental integration with surroundings. In evaluating environmental attributes, new facilities is better than the older ones. The small facilities appeared to be worse than those of the complex, and the large facilities are the worst in terms of environmental friendliness. In general, environmental friendliness turned out to be lower in the light of the facilities in the clustered area than those of the facilities of the other area. In the future, It is required that criteria for evaluating environmental friendliness of natural park facilities is established.

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A Study on the Visitors Activities and Cognition on Nature in Chirisan National Park (지리산국립공원의 이용행태 및 인식에 관한 연구)

  • 조재창;오구균
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.104-113
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    • 1991
  • Conquering top and climbing was a major visiting purpose of Nogodan in the Chrisan National Park. The visitors prefered climbing as visiting times increased. 37 percents of the visitors did not know Mt. Chiri as a national park and 78 percents of the visitors did not understand Mt. Chiri as a observing nature area. No of visitors to Chirisan National Park and Nogodan increased each by 2.2 times (2.6 millions) and by 7 times (260 thousands), respectively after construction of the Sungsamjae access road in 1988.

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Forest Fragmentation Due to Roads in Chirisan National Park (지리산 국립공원 내 도로에 의한 산림조각화)

  • Paek, Kyungjin;Park, Kyung;Kang, Hyesoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2005
  • Chirisan National Park, the first and largest one out of 20 national parks in Korea, is divided into five zones. They are composed of nature preservation zone, natural environment zone, natural residential zone, concentrated residential zone, and collective facility zone. However, the park is not a continuous habitat: roads, trails, local residences, and various facilities created the habitat mosaics severely fragmented. We investigated the fragmentation pattern of the park due to roads and mountain trails using GIS. Based on perimeter length, area, and the ratio of perimeter to area of each patch, we obtained landscape analysis indices which reflect the regularity of the patch shape. The 1 m-wide hiking trails divided the park into 491 fragments. The legal trails with 1.5 m - 3 m width which have been heavily used by hikers generate 58 fragments. Even the nature preservation zone, corresponding to a core zone comprising 31.8% of the park area, was divided into 37 fragments because of the roads and mountain trails. With the different widths of buffer applied, the core sizes of the fragments were reduced. When the 60 m buffer was applied, the patch interior areas ranged from 0.0001 to 47.77 $km^2$ with a mean of 7.08 $km^2$. The landscape shape indices were far greater than 1 for most of the cases with a maximum value of 25. These results clearly indicate that Chirisan National Park is not a continuous habitat, but mosaics of small, irregularly shaped habitat fragments. It is necessary to take the size and shape of the fragmented habitats into consideration when nature conservation is planned, especially for large wildlife such as brown bears.