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When an Orcas Island couple dug a pond on their property, they found a cache of old bones. The bones turned out to be 14,000-year-old remnants of a giant bison.
The San Juan Islands are beautiful gems in the Salish Sea forested hills and shorelines where deer romp and vacationers kick back.
It wasn’t always like this.
There’s evidence that these were hunting grounds used by some of the earliest inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest.
How do we know that? A significant, little-known discovery in an Orcas Island pond gives us an important clue.
How did humans come to the Pacific Northwest? The old theory was that folks migrated from Siberia across an Aleutian land bridge. It was thought those people moved south through a gap between massive ice sheets near the Rocky Mountains at a time glaciers covered much of northern North America, including our region.
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