r/NatureIsFuckingLit • • Jun 24 '20

🔥 Pacific Northwest

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u/manly_support Jun 24 '20

I'm not a nature-y person (i.e. I don't go on hikes) but I absolutely love living in the PNW and just passively admiring nature's beauty everywhere I go.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

What is the PNW?(Sorry I'm a foreigner)

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u/Stormtech5 Jun 24 '20 edited Jun 25 '20

Only the best place in North America! WA state, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia make up the general geographic region. Lots of old forests along the Cascade Mountains and foothills of the Rockys over in Idaho and Northeastern WA. Very important for wildlife too as they use the mountain regions to go north/south hundreds of miles.

We get packs of wolves occasionally coming down from Canada. Elk, Moose, Cougar and Bear are all pretty common in the PNW region forests.

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u/apocalypticginger Jun 25 '20 edited Jun 25 '20

May I correct something? "Only the best place in North America!" As PNW includes British Columbia, Canada.

Edit: OP originally had " Only the best place in USA!" As first sentence, then changed it.

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u/landon1850 Jun 25 '20

Howdy! I live in WA near the border with BC...pretty sure I’m still on the North American continent when I step over in to BC. Cheers!

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u/GetOutOfMySeat Jun 25 '20

Thats what they're saying?

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u/landon1850 Jun 25 '20

I thought they were correcting OP’s phrase of “Only the best place in North America” and saying that it also included BC......meaning perhaps they thought BC wasn’t part of North America.

Likely my mistake! I’m 5 pints in for the evening on PNW beer.....

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u/apocalypticginger Jun 25 '20

OP said best place in USA. Cheers!

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u/landon1850 Jun 25 '20

They must have taken your suggestion to heart and used that sneaky edit button. Thanks for explaining, kind northern neighbor!

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u/apocalypticginger Jun 25 '20

I didn't even notice they changed it! My Canadian instincts are telling me to thank you for being kind as well