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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 1990
Page
3
Jim Nichols chronicles the wood bison of the Peace region from 1793 to 1826, detailing how hunting and a devastating winter of deep snow and wind driven crusts led to their near extinction. He contrasts moose resilience with buffalo fragility in the snowbound landscape.
The passage describes brutal winters along the Peace that nearly wiped out the Wood Bison, with vast snow and dying herds. It notes skulls rotting in leaf mold, overgrown trails, and a hunter’s pressure thinning the breed. Yet after a century, small herds again appear on their ancestral range. con't next week.
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