Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

Airmail was used for the addresses outside the Pacific Northwest.

Each letter contained a postage-prepaid return envelope by regular mail for addresses in the Pacific Northwest, and by airmail for those outside the Pacific Northwest.

I have the whole Pacific Northwest ''.

* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.

* Bigfoot also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that cryptozoologists believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

The region is closely connected to Seattle and the American Pacific Northwest economically and culturally.

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As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

British Columbia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by the U. S. state of Alaska on the northwest as well as parts of the west, on the north by the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, on the east by the province of Alberta, and on the south by the U. S. states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

Wildmen stories are found among the indigenous population of the Pacific Northwest.

In addition to the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes region and the Southeastern United States have had many reports of Bigfoot sightings.

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The Meganthropus fossils originated from Asia, the tooth was found in the Pacific Northwest.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

Then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.

Also in 1994, United States Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt first proposed the removal of several Pacific Northwest dams because of their impact on salmon spawning.

For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, the HBC controlled nearly all trading operations in the Pacific Northwest, based out of the company headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River.

Recent research, based on archaeological and paleontological digs on 70 different islands, has shown that numerous species went extinct as people moved across the Pacific, starting 30, 000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands ( Steadman & Martin 2003 ).

satellite earth stations based in Honiara and Gizo-Intelsat ( Pacific Ocean ).

Tankers based in Europe were reassigned to United States Air Forces in Europe ( USAFE ), while regular air force tankers in the Pacific, as well as Alaska Air National Guard tankers, were reassigned to Pacific Air Forces ( PACAF ).

( based in Florida ), Patti Brooks KGMI ( based in the Pacific Northwest ), Free Talk Live ( based in New Hampshire ), Penn Jillette ( based in Las Vegas ), Jay Severin ( based in Boston, Massachusetts ), and Mark Davis ( based in Ft. Worth and Dallas, Texas ) have also achieved some success.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning System is based in Honolulu,

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

* Pacific Southwest: based in Vallejo, California, The Pacific Southwest Region ( R5 ) covers two states ( California and Hawaii ), eighteen National Forests and one Management Unit.

Dewey became the leader of moderate-to-liberal Republicans, who were based in the northeastern and Pacific Coast states, while Taft became the leader of conservative Republicans who dominated most of the Midwest and parts of the South.

In 1842 Darwin explained the creation of coral atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean based upon observations made during a five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836.

A similar pattern emerged in a study in 2009 based on morphology, including color, dermal denticles and teeth: A smaller species, up to about in width, M. alfredi is found in the Indo-Pacific and tropical east Atlantic, and a larger, up to at least in width, M. birostris is found throughout tropical, subtropical and warm temperate oceans, but it has not yet been documented from most islands in the southwest Pacific.

* The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 ( based on an earlier bill in 1856 ) authorized land grants for new lines that would " aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean ".

In 2011, Pacific Northwest Ballet presented a reconstruction of the work as close to its narrative and choreographic sources as possible, based on archival materials dating back to 1842, the year after its premiere.

Mbira has now become so well known due to the worldwide stage performance and recordings of Thomas Mapfumo whose music is based on and includes the mbira, and the work of Dumisani Maraire who brought marimba and karimba music to the US Pacific Northwest, Ephat Mujuru who was one of the pioneer teachers of mbira in the US, and the writings and recordings of Zimbabwean musicians made by Paul Berliner.

The Southern Pacific Railroad, which had acquired the P & WVR line at the end of the 19th century, widened it from narrow to standard gauge and in 1914, electrified it, providing rapid, clean, and quiet service between Oswego and Portland.

The major cities of Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma all began as seaports supporting the logging, mining, and farming industries of the region, but have developed into major technological and industrial centers ( such as the Silicon Forest ), which benefit from their location on the Pacific Rim.

Under the Köppen climate classification, a cool summer version of the dry-summer subtropical ( Csb ) designation, typically referred to as " Mediterranean ", is assigned to many areas of the Pacific Northwest as far north as southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, including cities such as Victoria, British Columbia, Seattle, and Portland.

Most of the population of the Pacific Northwest is concentrated in the Portland – Seattle – Vancouver corridor.

The coal-fired electricity generation plant, the Boardman Turbine Coal Plant ( 601 megawatts ), is located southwest of the town of Boardman, and is owned by Portland General Electric ( PGE ; 66 %- owned and operated ), Idaho Power ( 10 %), Pacific Northwest Generating ( 10 %), and General Electric Credit Corp. ( 16 %).

Its success due to: the incorporation of nearby Birmingham and the beginning of iron ore production there ; the building of the Georgia Pacific Railway from Birmingham to Atlanta ; and the construction of a Portland Cement manufacturing plant in 1906.

Rail service is provided by Union Pacific Railroad, and connects with the main line to Portland, Oregon ; Rock Island, Illinois ; Tucumcari, New Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Empire was founded in 1923 ; in that year miners formed a tent city while mining a claim originally established by the Pacific Portland Cement Company in 1910.

The growing popularity of Portland and the Pacific Northwest in general has led to population growth throughout the region.

The coulee was utilized by the Northern Pacific Railway for the construction of their main line from Portland, Oregon to Spokane.

Kelso is located on Interstate 5 at Exits 36, 39, 40 and 42, and is north of Portland, Oregon, south of Seattle, Washington, and from the Pacific Ocean beaches.

The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was chartered in 1905 by James J. Hill for the purposes of connecting the two transcontinental railroads owned by him, the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, to Portland, Oregon from Spokane, Washington, in order to gain a portion of the lumber trade in Oregon, a business that at the time was dominated by E. H. Harriman's Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.

In 1890 Jay Gould and John D. Rockefeller pooled their money and gained control of the Union Pacific, halting further progress of the Portland and Puget Sound Rail Road.

This, however, did not stop any rumors of the Union Pacific building their shops in the Midland area using the old Portland and Puget Sound right of way.

With a population of 208, 916, according to the 2010 Census, Spokane is the second largest city in Washington, and the third largest in the American portion of the Pacific Northwest, behind Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, and is the 100th largest city in the United States.

In 1970 the Great Northern, together with the Northern Pacific Railway, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway merged to form the Burlington Northern Railroad.

Although he considered himself a better football player than a baseball player, professional football wasn't as established as major league baseball at the time, so he signed with the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League in.

Subsequently, UP took over three Mormon-built roads: the Utah Central Rail Road extending south from Ogden, Utah, to Salt Lake City, the Utah Southern Railroad extending south from Salt Lake City into the Utah Valley, and the Utah Northern Railroad extending north from Ogden into Idaho ; and it built or absorbed local lines that gave it access to Denver and to Portland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest.