. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. demist respondents were moderately more inclined to feel this way. Almost nine out of 10 persons did not feel that bringing more luxuries made for a better camping trip. The more wil- dernist respondents were even more strongly inclined to feel this way. Informal Rules and Customs for Wilderness Use Summarized A summary of responses to all of the ques- tionnaire statements referring to informal rules and custom
. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. demist respondents were moderately more inclined to feel this way. Almost nine out of 10 persons did not feel that bringing more luxuries made for a better camping trip. The more wil- dernist respondents were even more strongly inclined to feel this way. Informal Rules and Customs for Wilderness Use Summarized A summary of responses to all of the ques- tionnaire statements referring to informal rules and customs for back-country use is included in the appendix. The responses are summarized for each of the areas in which visitors were recorded. This will give wilder- ness managers and other interested parties the opportunity to inspect response to each state- ment as it varied among visitors to the three different areas. In the appendix, the state- ments are arbitrarily grouped under three headings different from those designated in the foregoing section based on factor analysis of response. In the appendix, they are organ- ized under: (1) statements concerning per- sonal freedom, (2) statements concerning camping habits, and (3) statements concern- ing expected behavior in wilderness-type areas. Twenty-two questionnaire statements sug- gested some informal rules and customs that might be observed in wilderness-type areas. A factor analysis of responses indicated five general groups of statements about which wil- derness visitors felt pretty much the same. These groups of statements or factors indicate shared feelings about certain wilderness behavior. The first group of statements implied the presence of a norm among wilder- ness users suggesting feelings of equality and a sense of responsibility for both maintaining the propriety of each other's behavior and contributing, when necessary, to each other's welfare. The second factor implied the pres- ence of a norm suggesting a rejecti
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