DCHP-3

Land of (the) Little Sticks

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sub-arctic zone of stunted spruce and dwarf willow lying between the forests and the Barren Grounds in northern Canada.

See: sticks(def. 1),little sticks

Quotations

1896
No man may consider himself an expert until he has driven dogs and handled a sledge over such country as that approaching the Land of the Little Sticks.
1922
And it had swept south across the musk-ox pastures, across the desolate tundra, and the caribou-moss, and all the Land of Little Sticks. . . .
1965
Urged by the high suns of May, the snow retreats through the land of the Little Sticks and the caribou pour out on the tundra. . . .