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Sensitive Tourist Suggestions

• Hiking
• Camping
• Bike Riding
• Walking
• Swimming
• Jogging
• Sight Seeing

Main Activities and Attractions

Rocky Mountains

• Mountain Biking
• Hiking
• Sight Seeing
• Cross County
• Snow Skiing
• Snow Boarding
• Cross Country Skiing

Lakes

• Swimming
• Water Skiing
• Wake Boarding
• Knee Boarding
• Tubing

Glaciers around Montane Cordillera

Various Prairies

Large Plateaus

Natural and Human Characteristics

• Cattle Grazing (human)
• Forestry (human)
• Mining (human)
• Tourism (human)
• Ranching (human)
• Orchards (human)
• Various Types of Insects (natural)
• Various Types of Mollusks (natural)
• Various Types of Fish (natural)
• Various Types of Amphibians (natural)
• Various Types of Reptiles (natural)
• Various Types of Mammals (natural)
• Various Types of Birds (natural)
• Various Types of Plants (natural)
• Rocky Mountains (natural)
• Glaciers (natural)
• Plateaus (natural)
• Prairies (natural)

Description

The Montane Cordillera is an exquisite attraction to visit due to all of the stunning physical features and wildlife that this ecozone provides. The vegetation thrives here because of the high rate of precipitation and wide variety of rich soils found on the mountains, plateaus, and prairies. The Montane Cordillera has great agriculture, forestry, and tourism industries and as a result, this Canadian Ecozone has a large population. The major urban cities are Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George, Cranbrook, Quesnel and Williams Lake. The thriving vegetation has a tremendous growing season of 140-240 days which includes the Coniferous Tree, Engleman Spruce, and Ponderosa Pine. The main physical features that contribute to the Montane Cordillera's appeal are the Rocky Mountains (mountain range) and Glaciers. These physical features creates many activities for tourists who visit this ecozone which inclues snow skiing, snow boarding, hiking, zip lining, mountain biking, cross county skiing, etc.

Map

The Montane Cordillera covers most of Britich Columbia with the exception of the Northern Region. It is divided into 4 different areas: Sub- Boreal Interior, Central Interior, Southern Interior, and Southern Interior Mountains (B.C) and (A.B).

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