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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Example Sentences

The nearest grizzly populations to the east are in the Selkirk Mountains in Washington, Idaho and British Columbia and the Kettle-Granby population unit in B.C.

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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.

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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.

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Views span in all directions, including glimpses into the Selkirk Mountains that extend from British Columbia to Idaho.

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Some 50 to 70 grizzlies already live in Northeast Washington’s Selkirk Mountains, one of six grizzly bear recovery zones throughout the U.S. that represent an estimated 3% of the bear’s former range.

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