. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. concerning signs or, perhaps, some confusion over the questionnaire statements. The message for wilderness managers seems to be: use wood signs where possible, keep them simple with directions only, and place them at trail junctions rather than concentrating them at trailheads. We neglected to include one important statement concerning signs in wilderness. This statement would have referred to the practice of d
. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. concerning signs or, perhaps, some confusion over the questionnaire statements. The message for wilderness managers seems to be: use wood signs where possible, keep them simple with directions only, and place them at trail junctions rather than concentrating them at trailheads. We neglected to include one important statement concerning signs in wilderness. This statement would have referred to the practice of designating trails by number rather than by name. Having no data on the preference of a sample of users concerning this issue, we can only give our opinion based on our personal preferences and the comments of many users with whom we have discussed our study. Our opinion is that this practice, at least in part, operates against the benefits to be derived by the user from a wilderness visit. We acknowl- edge the difficulties of transportation plan- ning which extend even to wilderness-type areas, and there may be merit in the easier reference to numbered routes on maps. How- ever, when hiking on a back-country trail, feeling satisfaction over having temporarily escaped the impersonal structuring of daily life, we are disappointed and offended at being greeted by a sign informing us that we are on Trail 1812b and Trail 1812c is a few miles ahead. VII. Attitudes toward facilities and site improvements. — A total of eleven question- naire statements dealt with facilities and site development. Two statements concerned toilet facilities, four sampled preferences for different types of tables and fireplaces, three related to protective developments facilitating horse use, and two referred to the construc- tion of shelters in wilderness-type areas. The responses to these items are summarized in the following: A. Attitudes toward toilet facilities Five out of 10 persons agreed that out
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