In the Edo period, each village of Kita, Minami, Naka, Shimo, Ewa, Tota, and Kawauchidani, all of which became to constitute Chii-mura Village in Meiji and later eras, came to be included in the territory of Sasayama Domain, and the three villages of Sasari, Shiraishi, in addition to Ashiu Village that are located in the vicinity of the present administration building came to be included in the territory of Sonobe Domain, but the area corresponding to the present research forest was controlled by Kyoto daikansho (regional office of administrative official) as a tenryo (bakufu-owned land) and was initially handled collectively as a mountain common to the nine Chii villages, much as the mountain forest in other Chii areas was.
江戸時代には現在の当研究林のエリアは、明治以降旧知井村を構成する北、南、中、下、江和、田歌、河内谷の各村が篠山藩領に、現在の事務所周辺にあたる芦生村をはじめ佐々里、白石、知見の四ヶ村が園部藩領となったのとは異なり天領として京都代官所が支配し、当初は知井の他地域の山林同様知井九ヶ村惣山として一括して扱われていた.