DCHP-3

Hudsonian zone

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a biogeographic zone stretching from Labrador to Alaska, bounded on the south by the timber line (def. 2) and being roughly co­terminous with the Barren Grounds.

Quotations

1942
The south banks are strictly transition territory, from the last of the bush to the true barren land--a no-man's country between Hudsonian zone and the northern tundra.
1952
The Hudsonian Life Zone . . . extends from the timber limit to the south of James Bay, Lake Mistassini and Pointe de Monts on the North Shore.