The Whitehorse Star, October, 1968

YUKON TERRITORY'S FIRST ALBINO MOOSE

Yukon big game outfitter Alex Van Bibber of Champagne, Yukon, took the territory's first albino moose on October 3, 1968, in the Blanchard River area of southern Yukon, just north of the BC. border and east of Mile 94 of the Haines Road.

Van Bibber first spotted the cow moose while on a hunt, guiding William Portman of Oklahoma City on September 30. Later he and a group of hunters from Whitehorse; John Gatey, Jr., Francis Chambers, Francis Fromme and Alex's wife, Sue Van Bibber, returned to the area and bagged the albino during the Yukon's open cow moose season, along with two other cows and a light colored bull with a horn spread of sixty-three inches.

The albino was palomino color, with pink eyes, lips and pink hoofs, was about three years old with bad teeth, warts on the neck and near the tail. The weight of the true albino was 800 pounds. Northern hunters say the only other albino moose they know of is a small bull stuffed for display at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

From the Whitehorse Star October 10, 1968