Talk:Okanagan Basin

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When I first saw this, my immediate reaction is "but that's pretty much synonymous with the Okanagan - although, no, the Okanagan article is Canada-only, and I was lately puzzling over how to address the American Okanogan Country as a single region; certainly to the Okanagan people it is; Okanogan County isn't quite the same thing eitehr as it takes in areas outside the Okanagan basin. There's a Columbia Basin article and no doubt there may be a Thompson Basin article one day (which again, isnt' quite teh same as teh Thompson Country. Fraser Basin is much more problematic as in physiography that's the lowland adjacent to the river below the main level of the Interior Plateau, north from Quesnel or so and centred on Prince George; similarly the Fraser Valley is sometimes used to mean anywhere along the Fraser, or in reference to its basin, where in its primary local usage it means only the Lower Mainland portion of the basin. Okanagan Basin's different, and come to think of it in the northern end of it Falkland as well as Armstrong and/or Enderby are outside the basin, yet "in the Okanagan" (and definitely not the Shuswap, even though Salmon Arm-Sicamous are seomtimes included in descriptions of an Okanagan Region, mostly I think beacuse they're on spurs of 97....whatever, just pondering this article's content; hydrology, shared international interests (the Okanagan water-sharing agreements and IJC stuff shoudl be here), and geology/basic geography, but somehow different from what's in Okanagan. I wonder - would Okanagan Wine Region include Okanogan County?Skookum1 (talk) 02:45, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm hoping someone from WP:Washington responds to this; the way it was previously written it described an area already laid out in Okanagan, which is the main Canadian region-article for the Okanagan Valley; the Okanagan Basin includes the Similkameen, something the original author of this article missed; I wasn't sure whether to include Chelan or not as "in the Okanogan Country", never been down that way and such, and wasn't sure waht to say about eastern Okanogan County.....full statistics on American-side Okanogan are still needed; without expanding this article's scope this way it pretty much needed a merge tag for Okanagan...as it is there's still a decision to be made about Category:Okanagan Country, which as I understand it, as a term (though spelled differently) spans the border and should include Okanogan County items; maybe the best way to do that is for the county to be a subcat of the "Country"....thoughts?Skookum1 (talk) 00:02, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I was curious if any article for both native regions could be developed, perhaps named "Okanagan Country", as already suggested. They are both referred to as the "Okanagan Valley", but with different spelling for each based on American English and Canadian English. Would it be a good idea to develop an entry for Okanagan Country, with both countries. Based on this, however, some of the Okanogan Valley (in the United States) consists of portions of Douglas, Ferry and Grant counties, but not all of it. TBrandley (T • C • B) 00:59, 7 May 2013 (UTC)