Abstract
The management of wilderness areas is largely reliant on the perception forest managers have of the attitudes and preferences of wilderness users. In the Pacific Northwest area a study was done on the characteristics, attitudes and preferences of wilderness users in comparison to what managers perceived them to be. The results show that managers predicted properly two thirds of the users reactions. One difference was that the managers did not credit the users with as responsive an attitude towards suggested measures of behavior control. The managers also saw the users as supporting more recreational development than they really did, as more purist in thought regarding management activities, and as more opinionated than the questionnaires showed them to be. An inherent bias lies in the fact that for the managers the forest is a responsibility and for users it is recreation. The management of wilderness areas would profit from a better understanding of its clientele's perceptions.
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