The wintering flock grew to 600 birds by the 1960s. Recovery of the species began in this remote locale. The Edwards family, backed by the Canadian Wildlife Service, took to feeding them and did so for more than four decades. About 30 of them wintered at Lonesome Lake. Hunted ruthlessly for their plumage, only an estimated 100 Trumpeters remained in North America. The wilderness homesteading family of Ralph Edwards, celebrated by a book author as “ Crusoe of Lonesome Lake,” preserved the swans in an isolated valley that was a last refuge. ![]() ![]() My mother was just back from Lonesome Lake, deep in British Columbia’s Coast Range, enthused with a species-survival story she was writing for Life magazine. ![]() Image: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, CC BY 2.0, Wikimediaīlack-and-white photos of regal Trumpeter swans and of a woman with close-cropped hair tossing grain to the birds, covered a golden oak table where the Connelly family normally took its meals.
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