1995 — Stephen Blank & Jerry Haar, Making NAFTA Work: U.S. Firms and the New North American Business Environment, North-South Center Press (1998), →ISBN, page 78:
A "Cascadian" lifestyle, for example, seems to characterize North America's Pacific Northwest — which includes Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
2006 — Irwin Redlener, Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do, Knopf (2006), →ISBN, page 47:
Though not capable of releasing as much total energy as a Cascadian quake, a large quake on the Seattle Fault could be much more damaging to the city it is named after because the fault is shallower and closer to where the city is built.
2009 — Michael Welland, Sand: The Never-Ending Story, University of California Press (2009), →ISBN, page 194:
All the evidence, starting with the layer of sand, points to a Cascadian earthquake during the night of January 26, potentially as big as the Sumatran one of 2004.
Noun: "a resident of the Cascade region of North America"edit
2000 — Todd Dalotto, The Hemp Cookbook: From Seed to Shining Seed, Healing Arts Press (2000), →ISBN, page 105:
Cascadians tend to grow a highbush blueberry that yields huge, juicy fruits. Areas of the Northwest are rapidly gaining respect as fantastic wine regions.
2005 — Steve Solomon, Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times, New Society Publishers (2005), →ISBN, page 116:
Non-Cascadians should be aware that some varieties on its website, eminently suited to winter gardening west of the Cascades, are too slow to mature before winter freezes the garden east of the Cascades.
2006 — Eric Peterson, Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A., speck press (2006), →ISBN, page 28:
Pacific Northwesterners, sometimes called Cascadians, are so laid back that it's hard to tell if anyone actually works up here.
2007 — Reginald C. Stuart, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, Woodrow Wilson Center Press (2007), →ISBN, page 270:
Cascadians gathered enough political strength in Congress to defeat proposed border-crossing fees, and they got approval for dedicated commuter lanes and smart cards to speed transit at the Peace Arch crossing.
2007 — Cascadia Scorecard: Seven Key Trends Shaping the Northwest, Sightline Institute (2007), →ISBN, page 29:
To improve this trend, Cascadians can increase efficiency in cars, lighting, and appliances, and accelerate the growth of transit-and pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods.
2011 — Matthew Klingle, "Fishy Thinking: Salmon and the Persistence of History in Urban Environmental Politics", in Cities and Nature in the American West (ed. Char Miller), University of Nevada Press (2010), →ISBN, page 81:
A wealthy real estate developer and former University of Washington dean, Schell […] was a fervent backer of "Cascadia," an invented region running from the Oregon-California border to southern British Columbia. He believed that Cascadians were "united by a love of the outdoors and reverence for the environment passed to us from the native people."
