By Breanne Massey, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Wren Seven years after taking the internationally renowned McAbee Fossil Beds back from the province, members of St’uxwtéws Bonaparte First Nation, as title holders and stewards, are continuing to shape a vision that combines paleontological research with Secwépemc culture. The handoff in 2019 came after the site had been closed to the public for several years due to conservation concerns, placing one of British Columbia’s most celebrated fossil deposits under Indigenous management and opening the door to a new approach rooted in both science and community history. The fossils found at the McAbee site are primarily well-preserved plants, such as rare Ginkgo biloba, insects, fish such as the oldest known fossil salmonidae, and birds from the Eocene Epoch period. Sitting in the…
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