Ocean, also known as a chinook, that produced gusts up to 30 mph at the airport. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News] Reference
Untouched by a chinook is the muskeg, which lies between agricultural and forest lands and the Arctic. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
3. Which fish is found in varieties called chinook, chum, coho, humpback and sockeye?. From Wordnik.com. [January 2005] Reference
The snow disappears as with the sweep of a "chinook" in winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Foss River Ranch] Reference
It was the "chinook," which old Lambert, the trapper and surveyor, said came from the Pacific Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen] Reference
Some species, however, such as chinook salmon, may have to start swimming at shallower depths than they're used to. From Wordnik.com. [All Today's News - Sightline Daily] Reference
He reels off a list of prized fish that use the delta and are also in trouble, such as chinook salmon and green sturgeon. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
"Even now if the sun were just to shine out for a day and a good 'chinook' blow you'd see a surprising change. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference
The rivers support chinook salmon and steelhead runs. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference
Fishing for Central Valley chinook salmon was closed. From Wordnik.com. [The Reality of a Water Crisis and its Impact on Sportsmen] Reference
The chinook winds this past weekend did a number on the snow. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
My arms get tired when I fight a 20# chinook for 20 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Potential African Record Black Marlin Eaten By Sharks] Reference
This 85 lb chinook was found in Battle creek near Anderson, California. From Wordnik.com. [Fish Fit For Bigfoot] Reference
The 30-pound chinook never showed until Lysne fought it into the shallows. From Wordnik.com. [Whitewater, Survival, and the Best Salmon Fishing in Alaska] Reference
And yet, the perenniel sob story that comes in with each and every chinook. From Wordnik.com. [simcoe day] Reference
A chinook helicopter taking on people in a large open area near the superdome. From Wordnik.com. [More than a tragedy — a scandal « BuzzMachine] Reference
Windy, yes, but a chinook from the southwest that almost got us up to freezing. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The Pahsimeroi and Lemhi rivers are important chinook salmon spawning streams. 17e. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference
His toes were swollen and chinook-red from day after day of hard walking in waders. From Wordnik.com. [Whitewater, Survival, and the Best Salmon Fishing in Alaska] Reference
January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
End overfishing of salmon stocks, particularly wild coho and south coastal Oregon chinook. From Wordnik.com. [Klamath-Siskiyou forests] Reference
The chinook helicopter, like this one, crashed yesterday near an air base in Anbar province. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007] Reference
But yea, we wondered then decided to go to chinook, and we were just way so sweet there too. From Wordnik.com. [tencentlove Diary Entry] Reference
There it is, the fish plane, once again, in case you didn't see it, the 120-foot chinook salmon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2005] Reference
But with our prevailing west-southwest winds, all the chinook effect occurs on the north slopes. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
We've had no snow for a week or more, and the chinook winds have settled a lot that we did have. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The cost of the attempted rescue climbed as two Blackhawk, a chinook and a C-130 circled the summit. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2006] Reference
For example, the Sacramento River in California is perhaps the southernmost U.S. river with a major chinook run. From Wordnik.com. [The Kings of Tidewater] Reference
A tough question to answer, but I don't think it can get any better than fishing for chinook salmon in tidewater. From Wordnik.com. [The Kings of Tidewater] Reference
Clark in the corridors was to get a breeze that swept like a chinook across the frozen waste of old-line politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Rainbow trout and chinook salmon are two examples of fishes that were intentionally introduced to the Great Lakes. From Wordnik.com. [Exotic species] Reference
She climbed the ladder to the loft and discovered, somewhat to her surprise, that the chinook had hit here, as well. From Wordnik.com. [A Fine and Bitter Snow]
The Snake River's sockeye were designated endangered in 1991, and its chinook runs were listed as endangered this year. From Wordnik.com. [Better Red Than Dead] Reference
Most stocks, including all 5 salmon species (chinook, coho, sockeye, pink and chum), are fully utilized or overutilized. From Wordnik.com. [California Current large marine ecosystem] Reference
Downstream of Shoshone Falls, parts of Ecoregion 12 had strong runs of silver salmon, chinook, and steelhead prior to dams. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference
Yes, I learned: chinook salmon caught in the open sea by troller boats while the fish are still feeding and not fully grown. From Wordnik.com. [Salmon Time] Reference
It is a-- on a 737, 120-foot chinook painted onto the plane, as you can see, the most intricately painted plane ever produced. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2005] Reference
I caught mine, a salmon, a month and a half ago and the biggest was 14 lbs, it was a chinook and a few cohos that made my day. From Wordnik.com. [What is your dream fish?] Reference
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