Study On Peri-urban Forest Recreation Demand And Landscape Transformation

Forest remains urban ecosystem balance effectively, and makes a great contribution to living environment of hunman. The rapid development, ecological crises, speeding up the pace of life, and along with the increadingly competitive, the nature's yearning of modern people in the city is more than ever before. Forest became the ideal place to be of human. Since the forest landscape of city is difficult to meet people's needs, and other issues such as obvious traces of human being, seriously infected pest , monotonus landscape, etc. exiting in peri-urban forest. Transformating green space around the city, and surrounding ecosystem, it will attract more attention on enhancing its social functions as urban forest, including:, living environment, outdoor activities facilities.As it has been the recreational attractions and public green space for urban people, Fuzhou National Forest Park is species-rich forest resources, high forest coverage, and with a broad range of landscapes in both natural and cultural aspects. It is ideal for human beings to get closer to nature and plants. Fuzhou national forest park has become multiple purposes resource of landscape, for instance, tourism, leisure, holiday, research and education.With reference to the researches on the demand of forest recreation both in domestic and international, this article relays on questionnaires, field trips and other means, and then analyses the formation and effects of peri-urban forest recreation demand, based on the theories of applied Ecology, Silviculture, Sustainable Development, Forest Aesthetics, and Tourism Psychology, with the analysis of the forming process and the foctors (such as socio-economic, leisure time, recreationists themslves) of peri-urban forest recreational demand, and finally comes up with the conclusion of forest recreation as"needs-motivation-demand-action". With the support of the features of the survey of forest recreation needs from tourists, on the base of overview of forest resources, and to meet the higher level satisfaction of tourists for Fuzhou National Forest Park, this essay explains in more details on the 4 types and 9 categories of transforming forest landscape models, which is according to different approaches of transformation (nearly natural transformation and artificial transformation), different purposes of transformation (recreational and scenic forest transformation), different sources of species (native tree species and exotic tree species transformation), different life styles (arbor, bush and bamboo forest landscape transformation). Further, particular focusing on the examples of typical recreational forest park-"cherry garden","plum garden", It states forest landscape can be transformed to meet the demand of tourist at a higher level, and it also provides the reference on the healthy development of Peri-urban forest and the Forest Receation.