THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill., 60605 
Number 132 December 1964 
THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE 
By Raymond Mostek 
Fording the South Fork of the Flathead River at Salmon Forks — 
Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, Flathead National Forest, Montana. 
Photo courtesy of the U. S. Forest Service. 
This was surely the year for wilderness! Not only did the Wilderness Bill, 
so long sought by conservation forces, finally become law, but I had the 
pleasure once again of visiting a wilderness area. This time it was one of 
the greatest — the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana, a magnificent 
wild country of over 950,000 acres. 
We have visited the canoe country of the Quetico-Superior three times; 
and we have hiked 42 miles across the grueling Greenstone Ridge Trail 
of Isle Royale National Park. We have had the thrill of riding down the 
raging Colorado River in rubber rafts, and have climbed Grand Teton in 
other days, but this trip was different — we had to rely upon the mountain- 
trained horse. One who is city-bred cannot come away from such a trip 
without having profound admiration for the skill and ability of the horse 
in Carrying passengers over difficult trails. A rider has a thousand thoughts 
while riding these animals, and one is: “How did the Indians ever get 
along without them?” 
