The view south centres on 8,790-foot Mount Goldie, backdropped against the Rocky Mountains in the distance across the Columbia Valley. |
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From St. Louis to New York City, the Rocky Mountains and rural Washington State, folk music fans have got it made for the summertime. |
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Those loafers went on to tame the wild buffalo that made the Rocky Mountains. |
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But it helped choreograph an energy boom that is transforming the Rocky Mountains into the country's newest energy frontier. |
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Monarchs spend the warmer months in regions west of the Rocky Mountains where milkweed has been historically abundant. |
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What would you say if a tour guide leading you through the Rocky Mountains constantly pointed out roadside ant hills? |
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The best-known of these sites is the legendary Burgess Shale in the British Columbian Rocky Mountains. |
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For example, populations in the wetter regions west of the Rocky Mountains are different than those in drier regions to the east. |
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The increase in precipitation resulted from an upper air trough situated over the Great Basin region of the Rocky Mountains. |
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The eastern Rocky Mountains do not have Dolly Vardens because of the 2,000-mile distance down the Mississippi River. |
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Held in San Francisco, this was the first time a major party's national convention took place west of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Rocky Mountain National Park is a living showcase of the spectacular Rocky Mountains. |
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The Rocky Mountains form a majestic chain stretching from Canada through central Mexico. |
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He wanted to know his elevation above sea level, and he planned soon to measure the true altitude of the Rocky Mountains. |
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The bagworm is native to the U.S. and occurs throughout much of the area east of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Eastern dobsonflies live east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. |
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This place has the best coffee, tea, hot chocolate and pastries this side of the Rocky Mountains. |
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By the mid-nineteenth century, they had pushed their enemies, particularly the Shoshone, Flathead, and Kootenai, west across the Rocky Mountains. |
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It stretches from the Upper Mississippi Valley to the Rocky Mountains and from the North Saskatchewan River Valley south to the Rio Grande. |
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Two of them, the Rocky Mountains and Coastal Mountains, are both found in the west, while the arctic cordillera runs along the northeastern edge of the country. |
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The state, bordering the Rocky Mountains, says it needs an additional 65,000 cows to meet the milk demands of its expanding dairy processing industry. |
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In the United States, for example, huge, formerly ecologically significant areas such as Florida and the Rocky Mountains would be depopulated and restored to a natural state. |
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His explorations and geologic studies of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains helped lay the foundation of the U. S. Geological Survey. |
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Located in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, near Banff and Jasper National Parks, Aurum Lodge is a small, family operated country inn. |
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In the US the mussel has spread through all the major river basins east of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Calgary is situated on a vast, oil-rich prairie near the foothills east of the Rocky Mountains. |
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The beautiful Fraser River flows down the British Columbia Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. |
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He explored and mapped trading routes over the Rocky Mountains and followed the Columbia River from its source to its mouth. |
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Living near Banff National Park in the Rocky Mountains is a dream come true for Ashley. |
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The Rocky Mountains in the west of the State are brown and arid during the summer months with sprinklings of coniferous trees on their parched slopes. |
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The Capitol sits in the Rocky Mountains, which serve as a natural barrier to and from its surrounding districts. |
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We are all security risks with backgrounds and personal histories resembling a silhouette of the Rocky Mountains. |
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These agricultural pests migrate in mid-summer to the Rocky Mountains from Kansas and Nebraska to beat the heat. |
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In the cradle of the Rocky Mountains, sprawled out like a giant picnic over the foothills, Calgary has the beautiful Bow River winding through its core. |
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To the west the Rocky Mountains towered with their lofty snow-capped peaks and to the east the rolling plains extended as far as the eye could see. |
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Most North Americans are familiar with either the ruby-throated hummingbird, east of the Rocky Mountains, or the rufous hummingbird, west of the Rockies. |
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Members of the Siouan language family proper are to be found practically everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains except on the southern Plains and in the Northeast. |
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Explorer, fur trader and mapmaker, David Thompson used Rocky Mountain House as a base for finding a pass across the Rocky Mountains to access the Ktunaxa and other potential partners. |
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This survey focused on the border from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Fur trader, mapmaker and explorer David Thompson lived for a time at Rocky Mountain House as an employee of the North West Company, and used it as a base for exploring a route across the Rocky Mountains. |
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In British Columbia we are very proud of the fact that the entire western side of the majestic Rocky Mountains lies firmly in the province of B. C. We are proud of that. |
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In other words, the mapmaker has eliminated the entire southeastern corner of British Columbia and adjacent Alberta, and filled it in with an enlarged map of the central portion of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Rugged mountains capped by permanent snowfields and glaciers occupy a narrow belt bounded on the west by the continental divide and on the east by the most easterly range of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Wafted eastwards by strong winds, in 2002 the beastie made its debut in northern Alberta and further south in the national parks of Jasper, Banff and Kananaskis on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. |
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The Rocky Mountains were one of the last regions in North America to be explored by Europeans, because of the inaccessibility and ruggedness of the terrain. |
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Generations have fallen in love with our land and built our vibrant communities that rise from the rolling prairie or nestle in the Rocky Mountains. |
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Jack pine is a relatively small, short-lived, early successional tree occurring in the eastern and central parts of taiga east of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Winds flowing down the leeward sides of mountains can be quite powerful: Examples are the Foehn in the Alps in Europe, the Chinook in the Rocky Mountains, and the Zonda in the Andes. |
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Despite the claims in this budget, Canada does not end at the peaks of the Rocky Mountains and the Conservatives do not stand up for working families in British Columbia. |
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I live just outside of a national park in the Rocky Mountains and the sky is the limit for outdoor activities, and I do try to take advantage of it as much as possible. |
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Who led historic and death-defying forays into the Rocky Mountains to survey not only the CPR's route through Kicking Horse Pass but also what would one day be CNR's route through Yellowhead Pass? |
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Taylor notes that this could be expanded to include four or five other points based on natural geographical and environmental barriers such as the Rocky Mountains. |
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While I no longer participate in competitive athletics, recreational sport keeps me healthy, focused and provides me with a great excuse to take advantage of the beautiful Rocky Mountains! |
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Forty years of historical fire data are presented and used to calculate the expected costs of the twoo current approaches to managing harvesting debris along the eastern slopes of Alerrta's Rocky Mountains. |
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Along the Pacific Ocean coast lie the Coast Ranges, which, while not approaching the scale of the Rocky Mountains, are formidable nevertheless. |
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The Rocky Mountains expose igneous and metamorphic rock both from the Precambrian and from the Phanerozoic eon. |
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Located near Calgary in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Spruce Meadows attracts hundreds of thousands of fans each year who come to learn about show jumping and cheer on their favourite riders from around the world. |
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C Lazy U Guest Ranch, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, announces its western-style Christmas and New Year's celebrations. |
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Wolves encounter cougars along portions of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent mountain ranges. |
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In the Rocky Mountains and Andes, dry and continental climates are observed. |
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Mountain glaciers are widespread, especially in the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rocky Mountains, the Caucasus, Scandinavian mountains and the Alps. |
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A subduction zone on the coast of western North America continues to create the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. |
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They think Americans should go to Yosemite or the Rocky Mountains. |
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A second variety, the Rocky Mountain Douglas fir, grows in the Rocky Mountains from British Columbia south to Mexico. |
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It is thought that much of North America west of the Rocky Mountains is composed of such terranes. |
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Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains. |
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Otherwise, the flow of the Westerlies into the Rocky Mountains lead to the wettest, and at elevation snowiest, locations within North America. |
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The tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains learned from the Spanish how to grow European crops. |
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The Treaty of 1818 established joint British and American occupancy of the region west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. |
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Stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, the purchase doubled the size of the United States. |
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Poison ivy usually grows east of the Rocky Mountains as a vine or shrub. |
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The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range reach similar altitudes as the Rocky Mountains, but are significantly smaller. |
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In winter, over North America, the formation of Lows, known as cyclogenesis, tends to occur over the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, on the Great Plains just east of the Rocky Mountains, and off the mid-Atlantic coast. |
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And better hay crops east of the Rocky Mountains mean forage prices should remain moderately priced, barring widespread alfalfa winterkill. |
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Anthracites of newer Tertiary or Cretaceous age are found in the Crowsnest Pass part of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and at various places in the Andes in Peru. |
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The largest mountain ranges are the Andes and Rocky Mountains. |
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Although French fur traders ranged widely through the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, as far as the Rocky Mountains, they did not usually settle down. |
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Local glaciations existed in the Rocky Mountains and the Cordilleran ice sheet and as ice fields and ice caps in the Sierra Nevada in northern California. |
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Indian Hemp was usually preferred for cordage over other vegetable fiber, among people near the Rocky Mountains and westward, whenever animal tissue was unsuitable. |
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Fancy Archie Holden, after having all the Rocky Mountains for his workshop, coming back and settling down into one of these bandboxy little towns! |
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Census Bureau's definition of the 13 westernmost states includes the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin to the West Coast, and the outlying states of Hawaii and Alaska. |
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French claims to French Louisiana stretched thousands of miles from modern Louisiana north to the largely unexplored Midwest, and west to the Rocky Mountains. |
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From east of the Canadian Rocky Mountains to the mountains of Labrador, the golden eagle is found in small numbers in boreal forest peatlands and similar mixed woodland areas. |
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In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the United States are plains and prairies where golden eagles are widespread, especially where there's a low human presence. |
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Mount Lloyd George in the Northern Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada was named after Lloyd George during the First World War, and still retains the name. |
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Brown rats cannot survive in the wild boreal forest to the north, the Rocky Mountains to the west, nor can they safely cross the semiarid High Plains of Montana to the south. |
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This accretion process is thought by many geologists to be the reason for the crustal growth of western North America and of the uplift that produced the Rocky Mountains. |
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Considered an endangered phenomenon, the monarch butterfly's arduous migration stretches 3,000 miles from the Rocky Mountains to Oyamel fir forests in central Mexico. |
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Manual of the Carices of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Basin. |
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The Aoudad, also known as the Barbary Sheep, is a goat-antelope found in the rocky mountains of North Africa. |
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The lows are most commonly located over the Tibetan plateau and in the lee of the Rocky mountains. |
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You can spend two weeks exploring the second-smallest Canary Island, La Gomera, from rocky mountains to cloud forest. |
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