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...
In the final episode of this series, we journey to the most diverse of all Northwest forests, those of the Klamath & Siskiyou Mountains...
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...