ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the relationship between forest scenic beauty and recreation value, in the context of developed camping. T. C. Brown and T. C. Daniel hypothesized that the strength of the relationship between scenic quality and recreation value could be represented as a continuum. Forest scenic quality is probably more important to the value of camping than it is to some recreation activities which have a strong performance element, but less important than it is to other activities such as driving for pleasure. The very high correlation between photo-based measures of recreation value and scenic beauty indicates that judgments of recreation value and scenic beauty are both responsive to variation in the same features of forest scenes. Photo-based scenic beauty judgments were not directly comparable to judgments of directly viewed scenes when observers were actively engaged in recreation.
