NA17 · Northern America · Intermountain West
Columbia Plateau & Blue Mountains
Basalt plateaus, rolling Palouse hills and the forested Blue Mountains lie in the rain shadow of the Cascades. Once bunchgrass steppe, much is now dryland wheat, while rivers sustained salmon fisheries of the Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla and Nez Perce.
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