Heading up mountains throughout the Northwest is a great way of seeing how temperature and precipitation can determine which conifer species lives where, but in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, you can also track the relationship bewteen climate and conifers through time. In this episode, we follow the story of one especially important conifer over several million years using the fossils of the John Day Basin, and then embark on a road trip to the Wallowa Mountains further east to see how the same forces that drove the evolution of this species are still at work today.
Join me for my first new episode in years as we travel to the Driftless Area at the border of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and...
Voyages is back for its second season! For our triumphant return, we're visiting a single destination: the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and...
In our very first episode, I introduce some of the stories about the natural world and how we understand it told by my home...
