Talk:Interior Plateau

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[edit] Merge of Columbia Plateau with Interior Plateau?

I don't see the relation between the Columbia River Plateau and the Interior Plateau. I have lived in Washington all of my life and am actively interested in the geology of the state, but i have not hear of the Columbia plateau being considered part of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia. I would recommend against merging these articles. Kevmin 03:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I also suggest against the merge of the Interior Plateau and Columbia River Plateau, but I do agree with the merge of the Interior Plateau and History of the Interior Plateau.

For myself I was taken aback at the broad application of Interior Plateau to the Interior of Washington and Oregon (and ajoining bits of Idaho) but was prepared to accept it, as I'm Canadian and wouldn't know the specifics of how Washingtonians and Oregonians refer to what's east of the Cascades. I'd always thought Columbia Plateau, and if anything I've heard BC's Interior Plateau as a subset or extension of the Columbia Plateau, although there's a narrow "bight" in between them in the Okanagan area (where plateau-type country is throttled between the Cascades to the west and the Monashees to the east); in other words, they're physically somewhat separate, although certainly in biome/bioregion terms there is a unity of a sort; the southern tip of the British Columbia's Interior at Osoyoos, however, is considered the last outpost of the Great Basin-type desert in bioregion classification systems, and nothing to the north of that is (though resembling other plateau areas of the Great Basin quite a bit); and despite that bioregion classification, which I'll dig out somewhere if you're interested, it's obvious that Osoyoos and its neighbours Omak and Oroville (WA) are not in the Great Basin; so nomenclature's a weird thing is I guess what I'm saying.

As to the merge, sounds like there's good reason for it NOT to proceed; except maybe with a rider in the Columbia Plateau article that it might also be referred to by some as the Interior Plateau, and likewise in the Interior Plateau article that it is considred by some to be an extension of the Columbia Plateau. The Interior Plateau as such, i.e. in BC, has a number of sub-plateaus: Thompson, Bonaparte, Chilcotin, Nechako, McGregor, and Cariboo, plus a number of small mountain ranges on its perimeter as well as the Okanagan Highland, Shuswap Highland, and Quesnel Highland, which skirt the Monashee and Cariboo Mountains respectively. Current linking uses Interior Plateau as the destination for (the Interior (and The Interior) redirects, and while I established that norm it's not quite correct; "the Interior", which is one of the three/four main subdivisions of British Columbia (the Island, the Lower Mainland, the Interior, then the Central/North Coast or North depending on what's being talked about - "South Coast" is generally only used in weather reports, not as a region in any other sense where South Island or the Islands and Lower Mainland will do) needs a separate article as it is as much or more of a political-cultural-economic sphere than a precisely geographic one, and includes more than the Cariboo Plateau, namely the Kootenays (not part of the Interior Plateau) and the North (beyond the McGregor and Nechako Plateau, i.e. N. of 55 latitude, including the Peace Country, although the Stikine Plateau and areas north of Lake Williston are usually considered much more "the North" than they are "the Interior".Skookum1 23:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] intended creation of Interior of British Columbia

At present all Interior links redirect to this article, in the context of the British Columbia Interior or Interior of British Columbia. This is a different context than the purely geographic-feature nature of this article, so I'm proposing a new article on "The Interior" be created; an italicized dab at the start of the page could say for the Interior region of British Columbia see Interior of British Columbia; for the Interior of Washington see Eastern Washington (or Columbia Plateau?).Skookum1 21:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC) Bold text