Wild Goose Country: Horicon Marsh to Horseshoe Island

Dust jacket notes: "Wild Goose Country presents the whole way of life of the great Mississippi Flyway flock of Canada Geese - the beauty and the danger. It is perhaps the first book to treat the geese as realizeable beings, performing in their traditional ways, living in the world of nature and in the world of man. It is man who is at last discovering his world and the lack of contact with nature, partly because of the wild goose who more than any other creature symbolizes human aspirations and the need for freedom. The call of the goose is the call of the wilderness, a call which is being answered by the actions of people everywhere. Robert E. Gard and Edgar G. Mueller present the story of the successful preservation of the flock in the face of vast new pressures put upon it by changes in human society; it is an inspiring success...."