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Pacific Northwest

noun

A region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia.

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"Pacific northwest" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the original trees. Those nuts when planted produce second generation trees, and the nuts from these second generation trees are a little larger than the original or first generation, which is due to the peculiar soil and climatic conditions of the Pacific Northwest, so well adapted to nut culture. Trees grown from second generation nuts retrograde very rapidly, producing nuts not half so large as even the first generation trees, and finally running out altogether. Hence it is very essential that ...

— Walnut Growing in Oregon • Various

... the first opportunity to explain that he had always been an advocate of the cause. I was by this time so thoroughly advertised by the abuse of the press that I had no difficulty in securing large audiences in all parts of the Pacific Northwest. ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... opportunity for those with peculiar qualifications, is the management of the cooeperative forest work carried on by timber owners in many localities, often jointly with State and Government. This movement originated in the Pacific Northwest, where it still has the highest development, but is extending to the Lake States, ...

— The Training of a Forester • Gifford Pinchot