backcountry
Example Sentences
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“Opening our backcountry forests to more roads and development, and therefore more ignitions, is also not a wildfire solution and never will be,” said Josh Hicks, director of conservation with the nonprofit Wilderness Society.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
I do look forward to taking them backcountry skiing come winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
That heritage gave both him and the backcountry settlers he epitomized their combative sense of equality and dignity—rooted in the history of British impositions on their ancestral lands in Ulster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The ninth and final missing skier has been found dead in California's Lake Tahoe backcountry, five days after a powerful avalanche struck several guides and a tight-knit group of friends on a trip.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
“To the first settlers, the American backcountry was a dangerous environment, just as the British borderlands had been,” the historian David Hackett Fischer writes in Albion’s Seed.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
