. The Value of roaded, multiple-use areas as recreation sites in three national forests of the Pacific Northwest. Forest roads Northwest, Pacific; Forests and forestry Northwest, Pacific Multiple use; Recreation areas Northwest, Pacific; National parks and reserves Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific Recreational use. To gain further insight about this issue, we conducted informal conversations with some users in the Taneum-Manastash area during 1977. Here we attempted to determine how people felt about potential effects on their favorite dispersed campsite because of loggi
. The Value of roaded, multiple-use areas as recreation sites in three national forests of the Pacific Northwest. Forest roads Northwest, Pacific; Forests and forestry Northwest, Pacific Multiple use; Recreation areas Northwest, Pacific; National parks and reserves Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific Recreational use. To gain further insight about this issue, we conducted informal conversations with some users in the Taneum-Manastash area during 1977. Here we attempted to determine how people felt about potential effects on their favorite dispersed campsite because of logging. These discussions indicated that about half the people we contacted felt strongly that the campsites were very important to them— there were no equally good sites should theirs be destroyed, and campsites adjacent to "greened-up" clearcut areas were not as good as sites where adjacent trees have not been removed. Most of the people preferred sites that are rela- tively natural in appearance (no logging evident). Although these informal contacts may not represent the views of all users, they do help make sense of the findings from the survey. Several conclusions are apparent: 1. Some users do distinguish between the size of acceptable clearcuttings; smaller is better. But many do not find logging objectional per se. 2. Some users distinguish between the areas in general and sites in particular with regard to acceptable management practices. At the macrolevel (area-wide), logging (and clearcuttings) are accept- able; at the microlevel (site), naturalness is important, further indicating that the sites have high recreation values even in heavily logged areas. These findings are consistent with the ROS framework in which the acceptability of other resource use varies by opportu- nity class (Clark and Stankey 1979b). That is, while people preferring primitive types of recreation settings would not accept logging under any circumstance (Hendee and others 1978), people
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