1/5/2003: Canuck cattle on the move

[wolf]

Originally posted by slang
(stupid question coming up)

I see in the photo that there is a brown patch of land that is free from snow and seems to follow the contour of the road.

Do the Canadian snow plow drivers have a different standard up there?

Actually, that is grazing land for Canadian snow deer.

At dusk and dawn they gather along the roadways and nibble the snow away in great swatches.

You didn't used to see so much snow gone at one time, but recent trends in Canada regarding gun registration have curtailed a lot of the usual culling of the herds by hunting and you'll see brown patches like that because of over-grazing.

See, it wasn't a stupid question after all.