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

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.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Some live in the Selkirk Mountains, which extend into the remote Northeast corner of Washington.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

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

Some years ago I saw one of these immense glaciers in British Columbia, from a point called Glacier Station, in the Selkirk Mountains, on the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Elisha Gray

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