USER REACTIONS TO A VISITOR DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMME IN KILLARNEY PROVINCIAL PARK, ONTARIO: A COMMENT

A recreation manager is sensitive to user opinions in deciding upon approaches to the regulation of wilderness use. Different methods of regulation will likely be viewed as resulting in more or less satisfaction for the user. To determine recreational satisfaction with a particular approach, then, it is essential that an appropriate portion of the user population should be sampled. Otherwise, management policy might promote recreational behaviour inappropriate to the management objectives for the setting, while displacing users whose behaviour is more in keeping with that setting.