Jim Posewitz

INDUCTION 2016 Table ofof ContentsContents Table of Contents Introduction 4 Pat McVay 12 Introduction 4 Bob Munson 13 Margaret Adams 6 Bob Munson 13 Margaret Adams 6 Jim Posewitz 14 Jim Posewitz 14 BobBob Anderson Anderson 7 7 Bob Ream 15 Bob Ream 15 KenKen & &Florence Florence 8 8 Tony Schoonen 16 Baldwin Baldwin Tony Schoonen 16 George Darrow 9 Bearhead Swaney 17 George Darrow 9 Bearhead Swaney 17 Jim Goetz 10 Pat Williams 18 Jim Goetz 10 Bud Lilly 11 SponsorsPat Williams 2018 PatBud McVay Lilly 1211 Sponsors 20 22 Photo by Jesse Varnado Photo by Jesse Varnado 33 IntroductionTable of Contents Introduction 4 Bob Munson 13 Margaret Adams 6 Jim Posewitz 14 Bob Anderson 7 Bob Ream 15 Ken & Florence 8 Tony Schoonen 16 Baldwin George Darrow 9 Bearhead Swaney 17 Jim Goetz 10 Pat Williams 18 Bud Lilly 11 Sponsors 20 Pat McVay 12 424 e crossed the Rocky Mountain divide on the tenth day of October, 1857 … Instead of the gray sagebrush covered plains of Snake River, we saw smooth rounded grass that waved in “W the wind like a field of grain. A beautiful little clear stream ran northwest on its way to join the Missouri River. … Soon as we came to the divide … bands of antelope … were in sight all of the time … We also discovered as we moved down the valley to Beaverhead that there was plenty of game, consisting of blacktailed deer, big horn or mountain sheep, and also many bands of elk.” This description of Montana comes from one of Two of America’s great national parks sit as the Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame’s inductees, bookends, with the Northern Rockies sprawling Granville Stuart. It was his first impression when out between them and the Missouri River Breaks he was just 23 years old. National Monument stretching eastward. Where the Rockies “front” the plains, precious tracts Theodore Roosevelt, another of our inductees, of wild country are destined to remain forever was born a year later. Their trails crossed about wild, home to the great bear and a pyramid of 30 years after Stuart’s arrival. They met in Miles companion species. Water gathers in these places. City at a Montana Stockgrowers meeting and It seeps, meanders, rushes and at times thunders their primary topic was conservation, specifically to three oceans. These streams, creeks and rivers “the Texas fever and the overstocking of the are clean, cold and laden with wild fish. range.” The 14 people we recognize tonight are but One biographer noted Roosevelt “was a great a small sample of the legions of worthy and admirer of Granville Stuart, and was always on deserving Montanans. But the diversity of his side of every question.” this second class of inductees is also worth acknowledging. From educators to agency These two events show us that a conservation personnel, from politicians to grassroots activists, ethic rode into Montana seven years before our from pioneers to present-day leaders, the stories birth as a territory; and also arrived on a steam of these fourteen inductees speaks to an ever- engine-drawn rail car a few years before we evolving conservation ethic that is uniquely became a state. In the three decades that separate Montanan. those events we had taken a wildlife resource that once “exceeded anything the eye of man had Enjoy their stories and join us as we gather ever looked upon” and turned it into the wildlife to celebrate the achievements of those who “bone-yard” of a continent. contributed through time and those now holding the line while expanding the outdoor horizons of However, the seed of Montana’s conservation America’s Last Best Place. ethic was planted, took firm root, and as the generations passed that ethic produced an outdoor masterpiece. Photo by Jesse Varnado Photo by Jesse Varnado 535 Great Falls Conservation Council, which continues to bring together Margaret Adams conservation leaders from local nonprofits and governmental resource agencies every few weeks to discuss important regional 1920–2005 hough Margaret Adams was a issues. T product of 1920s Havre, Montana – where she was She helped found the Upper raised with her seven siblings Missouri River Breaks chapter of and graduated from what is the Audubon Society – and served now Montana State University- as its president as well as president Northern – it was in Great Falls of Montana Audubon. In 1997, she where she blossomed into an was named Montana Audubon’s environmental educator and Conservationist of the Year. activist. Margaret also helped to create Lewis and Clark Fund, Inc., a Margaret was a life-long nonprofit to further the U.S. Forest elementary school teacher and Service’s Lewis and Clark National principal. Her legacy lives on in Historic Trail Interpretive Center the lives of children she taught, at Giant Springs in Great Falls. and in the lives of children now And, ever the educator, she co- benefiting from Great Falls Public founded Friends of the Library in School’s elementary environmental Great Falls. education program, which she created some 40 years ago. Make no mistake, however, She arrived in Great Falls to teach Margaret knew well the power of at Lincoln School during 1957. a strong woman’s voice. When she Shortly afterward, she became was in her 60s, she and similar one of the early members of the minded women of her age began Montana Wilderness Association, taking extended backpacking trips later testifying for designation through Montana’s wilderness of the Scapegoat and Great Bear areas. When it came time to testify Wildernesses. She received the for wilderness legislation, their MWA’s Brass Lantern Award in presence belied the argument that 1992 and the Founder’s Award in wilderness was only for the young. 2000 for her trailblazing work. And earlier, as a campaign for the Yet, after becoming the principal Scapegoat Wilderness confronted of Lewis and Clark Elementary, USFS plans to log the area, a local Margaret’s activism was notably store owned by Lincoln activist marked by an inquiring bent to Cecil Garland – an inaugural understand, learn and share ideas. inductee to the MOHF – was She would famously insist that threatened with a boycott. fellow board members and visitors Margaret and her friends would research their opinions before have none of that and drove from taking a stand or offering comment Great Falls to Lincoln to stock up on issues of concern. from the shelves of Garland’s Town and Country store. That style of learned advocacy enabled her to work with folks who were not natural allies to achieve conservation victories. For example, she co-founded the 6 Bob also was a founding member of “Citizens for the Great Bear,” Bob Anderson formed to protect lands between Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The Great Bear Wilderness, like the Absaroka- 1943–2013 ob Anderson was born in Beartooth, was designated in 1978. B Seattle and raised in Livingston, Montana and spent his In tandem with others, Bob battled formative years hiking the Absaroka against the Allenspur Dam on and Beartooth country. the Yellowstone River. The 380- foot tall earthen dam would have He said he “wanted to know been just upstream of Livingston, what was over the next ridge” Bob’s hometown. He wrote a and he found out soon enough detailed analysis for the Livingston by painstakingly drawing the Enterprise, “The Challenge of boundaries of the Absaroka- Allenspur,” which informed the Beartooth Wilderness, an scientific basis for resistance. In the experience that was “like flying end, even the Montana Legislature over the landscapes,” and “the most was opposed to flooding the wonderful thing.” Paradise Valley with a dam on the With no background in political longest free-flowing river in the activity – but trained as an lower 48 states. engineer – Bob was among the few primary activists whose work led Additionally, Bob was a founder of to the designation of the Absaroka- the Greater Yellowstone Coalition Beartooth Wilderness in 1978. in 1983 and served as its executive director. The GYC works to He formed the Absaroka-Beartooth conserve the Greater Yellowstone Task Force in 1970, wrote a lands Ecosystem – which includes inventory that vastly expanded Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. the area under consideration for Bob was elected to statewide Wilderness, and prevented the office in 1990, 1994 and 1998 as wilderness from being split in two a member of the Montana Public by a road corridor through Slough Service Commission. He led on Creek. issues of energy conservation, non-renewable clean sources of Today, the extraordinary, nearly energy and efficient distribution of one-million-acre lake-strewn production. landscape contains the highest, wilderness elevation expanse in Bob continued his conservation Montana and, thanks in large work after leaving Montana, striving measure to Bob’s efforts, it’s to maintain the purity of Lake permanently protected. Tahoe waters. He achieved much before a tragic vehicle accident Bob spoke lovingly of “that high claimed his life in Serengeti place” and shared his knowledge National Park in Tanzania, Africa of it in Beartooth Country – following a successful ascent of Montana’s Absaroka and Beartooth Mount Kilimanjaro in celebration of Mountains, a definitive book his 70th birthday. published in 1984 by the Montana Geographic Series and reprinted by Farcounty Press in 1995. 7 – America’s first state wilderness Ken (1908–2007) and group – with Ken as its first Florence (1911–2007) Baldwin president. Florence and Ken then organized en and Florence Baldwin, Montana support for The K perhaps more than any Wilderness Act. Evidence of their other couple in Montana’s effectiveness is found in the fact storied conservation history, that Montana’s U.S.

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