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5 s k a the Pacific Northwest - C - an ad B B a Southern British Columbia . o C re al Un . P ite d S C l ta a tes N i ° o n 3 The boundary utilized for the Okanagan 5 N s °

4 a 5 s Mexico Ecoregional Assessment corresponds very ta l closely with the British Columbia Ecoregion F o r Classification system’s delineation of the es t a Southern Interior Ecoprovince (SIR) (Demarchi, nd N

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3 u 5 nt into Washington State as part of the Shining ai Ce ns ntra Mountains Project, which was developed by the l I nte rio provincial government with numerous federal, r provincial and state government, academic, and

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5 o Alberta, Yukon, Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Alberta r British Columbia th Montana in the 1990s. The purpose of the e r n Shining Mountains Project was to determine the

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0 ° ia P 5 1 n 5 F its neighboring jurisdictions (MSRM, 2005). In l R e a o s i c c n Washington, the boundary also corresponds with k y u s e The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) ecoregion M - S N M o o t r u i e framework based on Bailey’s (1994) ecoregion th n x p C ta e p a d map for the United States. Ecoregions are large s i e N ° N n

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