Portal:Pacific Northwest

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The Pacific Northwest Portal Scattered patches of subalpine fir grow below glaciers and permanent snowfields on the south slope of Mount Rainier in the Cascades ecoregion The Cascadia bioregion The Pacific Northwest (PNW; French: Nord-Ouest Pacifique), also referred to as Cascadia, is a bi-national geographic and cultural region in Western North America defined by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Some broader conceptions reach north into the Alaska Panhandle and Yukon, south into Northern California, and east into Western Montana. Other conceptions may be limited to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The Northwest Coast is the coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, and the Northwest Plateau (known simply as "the Interior" in British Columbia), is the inland region. The term "Pacific Northwest" should not be confused with the Northwest Territory (also known as the Great Northwest, a historical term in the United States) or the Northwest Territories of Canada. The region's largest metropolitan areas are Greater Seattle, Washington, with 4 million people; Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, with 3.4 million people; Greater Portland, Oregon, with 2.5 million people; the Boise, Idaho metropolitan area with 845,877 people, and the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area with 793,285 people. The culture of the Pacific Northwest is influenced by the Canada–United States border, which had been established at a time when the region's inhabitants were composed mostly of indigenous peoples. Two sections of the border—one along the 49th parallel south of British Columbia and one between the Alaska Panhandle and northern British Columbia—have left a great impact on the region. According to Canadian historian Ken Coates, the border has not merely influenced the Pacific Northwest—rather, "the region's history and character have been determined by the boundary". (Full article...) Selected article - Portland skyline from the Ross Island Bridge The Portland metropolitan area is a metro area with its core in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. It has 5 principal cities, the largest being Portland, Oregon. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) identifies it as the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR–WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan statistical area used by the United States Census Bureau (USCB) and other entities. The OMB defines the area as comprising Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill Counties in Oregon, and Clark and Skamania Counties in Washington. The area had a population of 2,512,859 at the 2020 census, an increase of over 12% since 2010. The Oregon portion of the metropolitan area is the state's largest urban center, while the Washington portion of the metropolitan area is the state's third-largest urban center after Seattle and Spokane (the Seattle Urban Area includes Tacoma and Everett). Portions of the Portland metro area (Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties) are under the jurisdiction of Metro, a directly elected regional government which, among other things, is responsible for land-use planning in the region. (Full article...) List of selected articles Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast Geology of the Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest Trail Pacific Northwest canoes Hip hop music in the Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest Corridor Pacific Northwest College of Art Pacific Northwest tree octopus Seattle Portland, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Pacific Northwest Ballet Columbia River Bonneville Power Administration The Gorge Amphitheatre Nutrient cycling in the Columbia River Basin Puget Sound Vancouver Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau Vancouver Island Strait of Georgia Washington (state) Idaho Oregon Nez Perce Nez Perce National Historical Park Salish Sea Umpqua River Surrey, British Columbia Boise, Idaho San Juan Islands BoltBus Clark County, Washington Multnomah County, Oregon 2019 Pacific Northwest measles outbreak Cascades (ecoregion) Mount St. Helens Pacific Northwest lumber strike Pacific Northwest oyster industry 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane Metro Vancouver Regional District Cascade Range Coast Mountains Mount Rainier Fraser River Squamish people Crater Lake National Park Mount Hood National Forest Willamette National Forest Willamette River 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic Soundgarden Idaho Panhandle Washington State Ferries Clayoquot Sound Mount Waddington 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel Arlington, Washington Edmonds station (Washington) Pearl Jam Interstate 82 Seattle Center Monorail Hillsboro, Oregon Rogue River (Oregon) Three Sisters (Oregon) Newberry Volcano MAX Orange Line Tryon Creek Camas pocket gopher Columbia Slough Hands Across Hawthorne List of governors of Washington List of bridges in Seattle List of counties in Washington Level Mountain Tumbler Ridge Olympic Mountains Port Townsend, Washington The Volcano (British Columbia) Dawson Creek 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes List of Vancouver SkyTrain stations List of municipalities in British Columbia North Cascades National Park Gulf Islands National Park Reserve Boeing Microsoft Costco Starbucks Alaska Airlines Nordstrom Amazon (company) T-Mobile US Portland International Airport Seattle–Tacoma International Airport Vancouver International Airport Nike, Inc. Reser's Fine Foods Pendleton Round-Up Cedar Mill, Oregon Tacoma, Washington Olympia, Washington Sleater-Kinney Grunge Idaho Falls, Idaho Willamette Falls Willamette Valley Columbia River Gorge Spokane, Washington Interstate 90 in Washington Eastern Oregon Palouse Coeur d'Alene, Idaho British Columbia Victoria, British Columbia Oregon boundary dispute Pacific Crest Trail Olympic Sculpture Park Portland Trail Blazers Seattle SuperSonics Seattle Seahawks 1969 Seattle Pilots season Seattle-Tacoma Box Company Keep Portland Weird Sub Pop Muzak History of Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh longshoremen, 1863–1963 Leaky condo crisis University of British Columbia University of Oregon University of Washington University of Idaho Idaho State University Oregon State University Portland State University Washington State University Mount Hood Willamette Shore Trolley MAX Light Rail Gladstone, Oregon Wilsonville, Oregon Upper Klamath Lake Mount Thielsen List of premiers of British Columbia Interstate 405 (Oregon) Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings Pacific Northwest Wrestling Pacific Northwest English November 2021 Pacific Northwest floods COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state) COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon COVID-19 pandemic in Idaho COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia Whidbey Island Mercer Island, Washington Architecture of Seattle Selected biography - Cobain performing with Nirvana in 1992 Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X, and is widely recognized as one of the most influential musicians in the history of rock music. Nirvana went through several changes of members before recruiting Dave Grohl in 1990; with this final lineup of Cobain, Grohl and Krist Novoselic, the band signed with DGC and found commercial success with the single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from their critically acclaimed second album Nevermind (1991). Cobain wrote many other hit Nirvana songs, notably "Come as You Are", "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Heart-Shaped Box", "All Apologies" and "Something in the Way". Although Cobain was often hailed as the voice of his generation following Nirvana's sudden success, he was uncomfortable with this role. (Full article...) List of selected biographies Eric Brewer (ice hockey) Joe Sakic Jimi Hendrix Jay Inslee Dixy Lee Ray Gary Locke Christine Gregoire Phil Knight John Kitzhaber Ted Kulongoski Barbara Roberts Neil Goldschmidt Kate Brown Brad Little Larry Craig Dirk Kempthorne Frank Steunenberg John Horgan Christy Clark Gordon Campbell Ujjal Dosanjh Justin Trudeau Ken Kesey Bing Crosby Frances Farmer Eddie Vedder Chris Cornell Chief Seattle Chief Joseph Kenneth Callahan Bill Gates Carol Channing Gary Larson Alfred H. Corbett Beatrice Morrow Cannady Zach King Esperanza Spalding George Bruns Largest cities of the Pacific Northwest City State/Province Population Metropolitan Area Urban Area Seattle Washington 704,000 3,905,026 3,059,393 Portland Oregon 658,347 2,753,168 1,849,898 Vancouver British Columbia 631,486 2,737,698 2,264,823 Surrey British Columbia 598,530 Burnaby British Columbia 257,926 Boise Idaho 226,570 691,423 349,684 Spokane Washington 222,081 573,493 486,225 Richmond British Columbia 216,046 Tacoma Washington 198,397 Salem Oregon 178,309 General images - The following are images from various Pacific Northwest-related articles on Wikipedia. Map of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt centers. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Oval-leaf blueberry on Mount Pilchuck. (from Cascade Range) Map of the Anahim Volcanic Belt centers. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) May 1915 Lassen Peak eruption column (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) A map of the Snake River Plain, showing its smooth topography (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Lumen Field, home of Seattle Seahawks and Sounders FC (from Pacific Northwest) Image of the Juan de Fuca Plate that produced the magnitude 8.7–9.2 Cascadia earthquake in 1700. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Pacific Northwest from space (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Magnetic anomalies around the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges, off the west coast of North America, color coded by age. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Seawall around Stanley Park in Vancouver is the longest uninterrupted waterfront pathway in the world, and includes a popular bike route. (from Pacific Northwest) Washington State Ferries' MV Wenatchee on Puget Sound. (from Pacific Northwest) Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail overview map (from Pacific Northwest Trail) The immense floods created channels that are presently dry, such as the Drumheller Channels (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Coquihalla River in the Canadian Cascades. (from Cascade Range) Geology of the Cascade Range-related plate tectonics. (from Cascade Range) The Columbia Gorge marks where the Columbia River splits the Cascade Range between the states of Washington and Oregon. (from Cascade Range) The Pacific Northwest from outer space (from Pacific Northwest) HMS Discovery was the lead ship used by George Vancouver. (from Pacific Northwest) The North Cascades are heavily eroded by glaciers (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Cascades range (from Pacific Northwest) State Route 302 after the Nisqually earthquake (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Coast Mountains are heavily eroded by glaciers, including Mount Waddington (far background, center). (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Columbia River basalts cover portions of three states (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Lava Butte, Oregon, erupted roughly 5000 years BCE (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) U.S. Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes' 1841 Map of the Oregon Territory from "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition". Philadelphia: 1845 (from Pacific Northwest) The Boundary Trail section of the PNT in Horseshoe Basin, Pasayten Wilderness (from Pacific Northwest Trail) A man in Portland, Oregon with Cascadian flag on International Workers' Day, 2012 (from Pacific Northwest) The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. (from Cascade Range) Mount Hood is the tallest point in the U.S. state of Oregon. (from Cascade Range) The Golden Hinde on Vancouver Island was formed by erosion carving into basalt. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Mountain goat on Wallaby Peak in the North Cascades. (from Cascade Range) Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, 1980 (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Map of most of the Cascadia urban megaregion, showing population density (shades of yellow/brown), highways (red), and major railways (black). Public land shown in shades of green. This map omits the southern Willamette Valley, which is typically considered part of the megaregion. (from Pacific Northwest) Pacific Northwest Trail at Blanchard Mountain in Washington (from Pacific Northwest Trail) West side view of Mount Shuksan in summer as seen from Artist Point in Washington. (from Cascade Range) Mount Edziza, a large shield volcano in northwestern British Columbia (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Notable volcanoes in the US portion of the Cascades. (from Cascade Range) Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system achieves daily ridership of over 500,000 passengers per day on weekdays and the overall transit ridership levels in the Metro Vancouver area rank third in North America per capita. (from Pacific Northwest) None of the multiple possible definitions of the Pacific Northwest is universally accepted. This map shows three possibilities: (1) The shaded area shows the historical Oregon Country. (2) The green line shows the Cascadia bioregion. (3) The labeled states and provinces include Washington, Idaho, Oregon and British Columbia. (from Pacific Northwest) Lassen Peak in the California Cascades. Southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range and part of Lassen Volcanic National Park. (from Cascade Range) Did you know - ... that for 25 years after an attempt to explode a whale went awry, the Oregon TV station that filmed it regularly fielded requests for its footage? ... that former football player Christopher Judge won a contest to host the morning show on an Oregon TV station, helping launch his acting career? ... that a Washington state park drew more visitors in 2021 than Yosemite National Park? ... that Oregon state senator William Kuykendall was a physician who founded the first hospital in Eugene, Oregon? ... that the least populous of Oregon's cities has three people? ... that an Oregon TV station planned to be off the air for two to four weeks to complete a move—but did not fully return to air for nearly two years? 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