Actual situations about levee trees as an element of rural landscape

摘要

Although levee trees are well known as an element of traditional rural landscape, they are going to be disappeared in modem agriculture. In order to look for the way of its conservation, geographical conditions and farmers' intentions about levee trees are investigated in Kameoka City, Kyoto Pref. and Nagahama City, Shiga Pref. The result is that levee trees have been used not only for drying rice plant but also for protecting of levee or irrigation canal according to its environment such as geographical conditions. In order to conserve levee trees, therefore we need the follows: (1) to stipulate that levee trees are traditional rural landscape. (2) to avoid large-scale changes of geographical conditions by the standardized farm land consolidation, in order for levee trees to have functions such as protections of levee or irrigation -canal etc. which levee frees have had until now (3) to consider the reasonable arrangement and shape of levee trees so that levee trees may not hinder farming works.