SN5LEAP High Country Expedition Limited Edition Art PrintStone’s Sheep are cautiously watching a pack-train of intruders into their mountainous domain before escaping into the rugged and remote valley of the Tetsa River. Stone’s Sheep (Ovis dalli stonei Allen) are found in the far-off mountains of northern British Columbia.I was invited to come to B.C. in 1990 by the Minister of Forests for Canada to depict Mary Henry’s botanical expedition in the summer of 1931 into the remote and largely unmapped region of British Columbia. The purpose of her expedition was to collect and identify plants beyond the frontier in this area of the world. Mary Henry was a Director of the American Horticultural Society. Her comment in The National Horticultural Magazine, January 1934, was, “This part of the country, sometimes called the ‘Blind Spot’ of Canada, has usually been considered inaccessible… .” The 1931 expedition, composed of guides, horses, and equipment necessary for the trip disappeared into the mountains. Traveling over 1,000 miles, they returned to civilization at Hudson’s Hope 80 days later on September 17. The 1990 expedition was composed of Rod Silver, Canadian Forester; Dr. Vernon “Bert” Brink, Professor UBC; Ron Erickson, Director of Nature Trust; and Bob Batchelor, Helicopter Pilot. We covered the same route as the Mary Henry Expedition. In our helicopter it took us 5 days. We met with the publisher of the Fort St. John daily paper for a group interview. |
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