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NATURE
· Fire Forests
FIRST PEOPLES
· First Nations Basketry from the Dry Forests
HISTORY
· Revealing the Cariboo-Chilcotin
This is a link to a map of the forests of British Columbia with optional close-ups of Northeastern British Columbia, Cariboo-Chilcotin and Central Coast.

FOCUS  Cariboo-Chilcotin -- Dry Forest

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This is a photograph of the Fraser River cutting through the landscape south of Williams Lake, British Columbia.
Fraser River south of Williams Lake. Robert Cannings.
Dry Forests clothe the hills of the Cariboo-Chilcotin region.
They are dominated by Douglas-firs, with extensive stands of Lodgepole Pine and Trembling Aspen.
Lodgepole Pines at Kleena Kleene, Chilcotin. Richard Cannings.
This is a photograph of Lodgepole Pines at Kleena Kleene, Chilcotin.
Grasslands are scattered here and there where it is too dry for trees to grow or where fires have pushed back the forest.
Grasslands associated with groves of Douglas-fir, Lodgepole Pine and Trembling Aspen, Riske Creek, Chilcotin. Sydney Cannings.
This is a photograph of grasslands and associated groves of Douglas-fir, Ponderosa Pine and Trembling Aspen at Riske Creek, Chilcotin.
Along the Fraser and Chilcotin rivers, this Dry Forest borders the even drier grasslands of the Bunchgrass Zone.
At the junction of the Fraser and Chilcotin rivers the Dry Forest meets the Bunchgrass Zone. Robert Cannings.
This is a photograph of the juncture of the Fraser and Chilcotin Rivers, with a tree in the foreground.
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