Comments on: Celebrating the Quetico-Superior’s public lands http://www.friends-bwca.org/news/2009/07/celebrating-the-quetico-superiors-public-lands/ To protect and restore the wilderness character of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the Quetico-Superior ecosystem Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:10:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David C. Marsh http://www.friends-bwca.org/news/2009/07/celebrating-the-quetico-superiors-public-lands/comment-page-1/#comment-3044 David C. Marsh Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:05:20 +0000 http://www.friends-bwca.org/?p=1663#comment-3044 Quetico Park and surrounding wilderness will remain forever in our hearts and those of our children. Many times during the seventies and eighties we travelled by canoe and portage through this wonderful area. We experienced noseems, mosquitoes, horse flies, bears, moose, wolves, spruce grouse, eagles, ospery and otters. We swam with giant turtles, broiled lake trout, canoed and camped to the music of the loons. In 1969 we even experienced a hurricane which threatened to swamp our Grummans or kill us with lightening strikes. That evening, bears attempted to raid our wanagons but we uttered unkind words and threatened them with a beating from our paddles. We called ourselves the Jean Lake Trout Club. We MUST preserve this place for those who come after us as the Quebec Timber Company preserved the pines for us. Quetico Park and surrounding wilderness will remain forever in our hearts and those of our children. Many times during the seventies and eighties we travelled by canoe and portage through this wonderful area. We experienced noseems, mosquitoes, horse flies, bears, moose, wolves, spruce grouse, eagles, ospery and otters. We swam with giant turtles, broiled lake trout, canoed and camped to the music of the loons. In 1969 we even experienced a hurricane which threatened to swamp our Grummans or kill us with lightening strikes. That evening, bears attempted to raid our wanagons but we uttered unkind words and threatened them with a beating from our paddles. We called ourselves the Jean Lake Trout Club.

We MUST preserve this place for those who come after us as the Quebec Timber Company preserved the pines for us.

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