In a study
from 2009, Kleinhückelkotten et al. have found five different groups of people
who use the forests for recreation. One of them are thepragmatical
distant persons, the others are holistic forest friends, ecological
forest romantics, self-centered forest users, and indifferent
persons.
In the
study, the pragmatical distant persons represented 23% of the total and formed
the biggest group. They see the forest primarily as a material resource. They
believe that forestry performs well and like it when a forest looks organized
and cleaned up. This group supports efficient forest technology and may
complain when efficiency is sacrificed to nature conservation.
