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    Mount Baker is located in Whatcom County, Washington. This mountain has the highest summit in the Northern Cascades. It is the only U.S. volcano in the Cascade Range. This type of volcano is stratovolcano, which means a volcano that has different layers of ash and lava, and these lava and ashes bullets up a stratovolcano. The recent eruption from Mount Baker was 6,700 years ago, it began with side collapse events that resulted in lahars, which means a ruined wet volcano that landed on its side, the volcano moved down in MIddle Fork and Nooksack Rivers as well as down the East, but that ended all over the place. The chance of eruption of Mount Baker is very high, some people don't know when it will erupt. The elevation of the mountain is 10,781ft (3,286m) Latitude is 48.777°N and Longitude is 121.813°W. The formation of Mount Baker started with a cone that formed 9,800 years ago in Schriebers…

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    Do you know what mountain was temporarily renamed Mount Seattle Seahawks prior to Super Bowl XLVIII until midnight after the game on february 3, 2014? Mount Rainier, which not only tallest mountain in the cascade, but also the tallest mountain located in Washington. Mount rainier is located on the pacific Northwestern region in the Washington. It is near three major cities such as Seattle,Tacoma, and Yakima. If you would rather take an airplane to see what all mount rainier has to offer the…

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    the relation of that location to another. Portland has many human and environmental characteristics. Portland is usually warm and dry in the summer, but has often has rainy winters (“Portland..”). This information can be used to explain the agricultural diversity of the region. Portland is hilly on the west side, but flat on the east (Gowdy and Marthens). Portland is in between two mountains, which is the Cascade Range and the Lower Coast Range. The city has a group of hills called the Oregon…

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    Marys Peak - Fir Forests Lindsay Liddell FES 342 Professor Matthew Powers MWF 10-11am Due: 10/19/15 Marys Peak is a mountain in Benton County, Oregon. At the top of the peak, on a clear day, one can see the cities of the Willamette Valley, the Cascade Range, and the Pacific Ocean. It is known for its meadows of wildflowers in spring and its fir forests uniquely populated with noble firs (Abies procera). Little data is available regarding the trees age, but there is clear variance in age,…

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    Snoqualmie Pass History

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    Snoqualmie Pass East According Wikipedia.org, located in state of Washington are the beautiful Cascade Mountains. Snoqualmie Pass is located in the at the center of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, and is a total area of 2.9 miles, with the Mountain's elevation of 3022'. The Washington State Transportation Department tells us that “Native Americans on both sides of the mountains carved foot trails across the Central Cascades, including Snoqualmie Pass,” The site continues to inform that the…

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    Essay On Mount St. Helens

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    The movements of tectonic plates, these massive slabs of solid rock that move across the earth’s crust and crash together, move apart, and rub against each other forming most volcanoes. The tectonic collisions are a slow-moving event, as if set in slow motion, creating a long process that eventually resulting in the formation of volcanoes. The Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest is known for its deep evergreen forests and numerous tall jagged cones and this area is home to the Strato-Volcano…

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    Project Squatch Analysis

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    just please let me finish. Okay so as I was saying, we were assigning projects to groups today and my group consists of me, Chance, and Reginald. We choose the topic of “Sasquatch Searching” not thinking much about it and once we read the packet, we realized something. We have to go to North Cascades National Park for this project.” You can now see that Mrs. Blackwood, “All the way in Washington! There is no way I am letting you go!” Mrs. Blackwood screeches with authority. “Hold on Jaylene,…

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    larger one. The houses are right outside of Keene Valley, a town of less than a thousand people, nestled in the heart of the High Peaks, the region so named because it is home to all of the tallest mountains in the park. The mountains are incredibly beautiful, the views from their tops exceedingly spectacular. They are just waiting to be climbed. Indeed, in the last decade hiking in the High Peaks has doubled, leading to issues with some of the more popular, accessible mountains being…

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    M.septentrionalis usually reside within the forests and caves, therefor their geographic range include forested places and mountainous locations. According to U.S Fish & Wildlife Services (USFWS), M.septentrionalis’s range include much of the eastern and north central parts of United States. Thus including 37 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,…

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    On Tuesday night, December 8th of 2015. I waited impatiently by the Great Hall of the CCNY Shepard Hall. Seven twenty-three pm I looked at the clock on my phone. Small groups of people starts to enter the open door to the Great hall. Confusingly, I walk to the door and pick up the program note to CCNY choral concert. I went to the seating area and pick the row at the back. When everyone gathered, a man caught everyone’s attention, Ira Spaulding, introduced himself as the conductor of the…

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