Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river rising in southeast Yukon Territory, Canada, and flowing about 1,115 km (690 mi) southeast into northern British Columbia then northeast to the Mackenzie River in southwest Northwest Territories.

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Examples

  • Some 270 km of the South Nahanni River, one of North America's finest wild rivers, runs through the Park covering a seventh of the river's 35,000 square kilometer (km2) watershed which drains via the Liard River into the Mackenzie basin.

    Nahanni National Park Reserve, Canada 2008

  • This ecoregion includes a number of different physiographic features: the northern Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia; the Hyland Highland in southeastern Yukon north of the Liard River; the Liard Basin, a broad, rolling low-lying area; the complex, rugged Boreal Mountains and Plateaus; the Yukon-Stikine Highlands in the rain shadow of the Coast Mountains; and the Pelly and northern Cassiar Mountains.

    Northern Cordillera forests 2007

  • Inland rainbow trout are native to upper sections of the Peace River and Liard River drainages of the Mackenzie River basin, in British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Inland rainbow trout are native to upper sections of the Peace River and Liard River drainages of the Mackenzie River basin, in British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Inland rainbow trout are native to upper sections of the Peace River and Liard River drainages of the Mackenzie River basin, in British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Inland rainbow trout are native to upper sections of the Peace River and Liard River drainages of the Mackenzie River basin, in British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Then there's the Liard River packet and the Reindeer Lake packet.

    The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

  • The RCMP Fort Liard Detachment received a call for service on May 30 th that a resident of Fort Liard was at his bush camp when he had fallen out of his boat on the Liard River sometime earlier on Sunday.

    Opinion 250: News 2010

  • It will enshrine in law B. C.'s historic Two Rivers Policy by prohibiting future development of large scale hydro-electric storage dam projects on all river systems in B.itish Columbia, such as the Liard River system.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • It will enshrine in law B. C.'s historic Two Rivers Policy by prohibiting future development of large scale hydro-electric storage dam projects on all river systems in B.itish Columbia, such as the Liard River system.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

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