Coast Range

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Coast Range

a mountain chain in the cordillera system of North America, in the USA and Canada. It extends for 1,700 km along the western coast of the continent. Its average elevation is 3,000 m. Its highest point has an elevation of 4,042 m (Mount Waddington). It is made up of granites. The range is intensely dissected by deep transverse valleys and fjords that have developed along tectonic joints. The range, which forms a barrier against the moist ocean winds, receives as much as 4,000 mm of precipitation annually on its steep western slope. It is covered with dense coniferous forest (Douglas fir, western hemlock, thuja, Sitka spruce). Above the timber line (1,000–1,200 m above sea level in the north, 1,500–1,800 m in the south) there are belts of mountain tundra and alpine meadows, which border on a belt of permanent snow and glaciers that descend to sea level in some places.

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They also included the Umpqua River, even though only a small part of the Umpqua River drains the Klamath Mountains, although herpetologists in the same volume place the Umpqua River in the Coast Range (Bury and Pearl 1999).

DRAINAGE EVOLUTION AND FRESHWATER FISH ZOOGEOGRAPHY IN COASTAL OREGON AND WASHINGTON

When I collect a water sample in the Fraser, its strontium-87 signature tells me how much material came from older rocks in the Rockies that have accumulated more strontium-87 or from younger rocks in the Coast Range.

Of the river & time: flowing waters run deep with evidence of earth's mountains and climate

The appellate court said that the state regulation did not deprive Coast Range of any economically viable use of its property as would be required to establish a taking of property without just compensation.

Wildlife regulation not a taking of property without just compensation

Glaciers in central Asia and the Coast Range of Alaska have tallied inordinate melting rates, says Barry.

On thinning ice: are the world's glaciers in mortal danger?

The VK Coast range crams in Orange & Passion Fruit, Apple & Mango and the unique Strawberry & Vanilla, all of which are guaranteed to bring the summer sun to your party, even if the weatherman can't.

HIT THE COAST!; Win a year's supply of VK Vodka Coast

Furnish's efforts shifted into high gear after February 1996 flooding saturated the Coast Range mountains and triggered hundreds of mudslides on steep, unstable slopes.

Bringing calm to a political storm

The rest of the coast range is more or less unbroken except for many small canyons and valleys along the coastline.

Commonsense winemaking

The Steeles plan to operate their train along a 27-mile route between Roy and Cochran -- an abandoned timber town at the summit of the rugged Coast Range Mountains -- on tracks owned by the Port of Tillamook Bay.

Cooking up a dinner train

Ecoregions covered include the Klamath Mountains, Coast Range, and the Cascades.

United States : Rare Plants of Southwest Oregon Book Available

The regions are the Coast Range, Puget Lowland, North Cascades, South Cascades, Okanogan Highlands, and the Columbia Basin.

Roadside Geology of Washington, 2nd Edition

The rainforests of the Coast Range burn every 400 to 1,000 years.

Drift Away

In 2011, the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that the Red Tree Vole (Arborimus longicaudus) warranted listing as a threatened or endangered distinct population segment in the Oregon Coast Range north of the Siuslaw River (USFWS 2011).