Selkirk Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak, Mt. Sir Donald, 11,123 feet (3,390 meters).

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Selkirk Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)

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Selkirk Mountains

Fifteen minutes away from the village core, the Nakusp Hot Springs is at the end of a quiet paved road in the Kuskanax Valley, surrounded by the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

In Idaho, another snowmobiler was killed Friday in an avalanche in the southern Selkirk Mountains in the state’s panhandle region, according to a news release from Boundary County Emergency Management.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Biologists became aware of the bear through images captured on cameras inside the Selkirk Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone in a remote area of the Selkirk Mountains.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

Yet logging of old growth contracted by the B.C. government continues both on Vancouver Island and in rainforests of the Selkirk Mountains, where the logging of old-growth forest is driving the mountain caribou to extinction.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2020

In the Selkirk Mountains of Canada the basement rocks of the region have been driven east for seven miles on a thrust plane, over rocks which originally lay thousands of feet above them.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon