Northwestern Forested Mountains · Zones 3–7
Western Mountains & Interior Plateaus
The Rockies, Cascades and BC interior: conifer forest, alpine meadows, dry valleys and cold fast rivers.
Ponderosa and lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir and spruce-fir forest by elevation, sagebrush valleys, glacial lakes and famous trout rivers.
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Gardening
Elevation and frost pockets rule: short seasons and cold nights at altitude, orchards and vineyards in the warm valleys (Okanagan, Bitterroot, Wenatchee).
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Cutthroat, rainbow, brown and bull trout, kokanee and lake trout, mountain whitefish; steelhead and salmon in the Snake and Columbia tributaries.
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Huckleberries, morels after fire, king boletes and chanterelles, saskatoons, chokecherries, pine nuts (south) and wild onions.
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