. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. showed a moderate tendency to oppose such facilities. Merriam and Amnions (1967) found that nearly 80 percent of the 31 back- country visitors they interviewed in Glacier National Park favored trail shelters, but on the two National Forest areas included in their study, such facil- ities were not endorsed by a majority of the users. In a report devoted to the Glacier Park visitors, Merriam (1967) reported that
. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. showed a moderate tendency to oppose such facilities. Merriam and Amnions (1967) found that nearly 80 percent of the 31 back- country visitors they interviewed in Glacier National Park favored trail shelters, but on the two National Forest areas included in their study, such facil- ities were not endorsed by a majority of the users. In a report devoted to the Glacier Park visitors, Merriam (1967) reported that "chalets already in place were accepted by the users as were primitive shelters. Shelters in classified wilderness are also a legal problem. Con- structing shelters for users would be in the realm of convenience and comfort to the wilderness user, which violates current interpretation of the Wilderness Act under Forest Service policy, and shelters to facilitate administration of wilderness would set precedents for shelters by a host of other resource administrators; , snow survey per- sonnel, cattle grazers, miners, etc. In summary, response to the foregoing statements concerning facilities and site improvements indicated that about five out of 10 persons accept outhouses as being consist- ent with proper use of wilderness-type areas, but the more wildernist respondents oppose any kind of toilet facilities. More than one-half of the respondents reject the suggestion of plank tables in wilder- ness-type areas, but opinions are evenly Locked patrol cabins for official use only were endorsed by only one-third of the users. Pictured is snow survey cabin in the Railroad Creek drainage of the Glacier Peak Wilderness. Six out of 10 users endorsed three-sided shelters for hikers as consistent with proper use of wilderness- type Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and app
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