. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. Summary We undertook this study to find out what kinds of persons visit wilderness in the North- west, what values and codes of behavior they associate with wilderness use, and how they feel about certain policies that might be used in the management of such areas. The study is based on the response of 1,350 persons to an eight-page questionnaire that was sent to a random sample of visitors recorded during 1965
. Wilderness users in the Pacific Northwest: their characteristics, values, and management preferences. Wilderness areas Northwest, Pacific; Wilderness areas Northwest Pacific Visitors. Summary We undertook this study to find out what kinds of persons visit wilderness in the North- west, what values and codes of behavior they associate with wilderness use, and how they feel about certain policies that might be used in the management of such areas. The study is based on the response of 1,350 persons to an eight-page questionnaire that was sent to a random sample of visitors recorded during 1965 in the Glacier Peak, Eagle Cap, and Three Sisters Wilderness Areas. We found, as expected, that the wilderness users were highly educated. In fact, about one-third of them had postgraduate educa- tions, and more than 60 percent of them came from less than the top 10 percent of the U. S. population in terms of educational attainment. Three out of four of the users were married, and all but 15 percent of these married respondents had children. About one-half of the wilderness use reported by the respondents took place in small family groups and much of the remainder with small clusters of friends, indicating that the wilderness experience is typically sought in the company of a few intimates. The study indicated that our increasingly urban culture produces persons motivated to use wilderness; in fact, the more wilderness- purist users were most likely to have been raised in urban environments. The average respondent reported taking about six wilder- ness trips the previous year for approximately 2Vi days each trip, accounting for an average of \AVi man-days of use. There was little dif- This study and others indicate that recreationists tend to continue in the patterns learned in childhood. The families pictured here in the Three Sisters Wilderness will, no doubt, produce successive generations of wilderness Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page i
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