From Crater Lake to Mt. Rainier, the forests of the central Cascades Range are alive with animals, plants, and fungi, all of which are connected in some way to conifers, the trees that dominate and define this diverse ecosystem. In this episode of the Voyages Holiday Special, we travel through the mountains of Oregon and Washington to explore the numerous, important, and often unexpected interactions between conifers and the organisms that rely on them.
In the final episode of this series, we journey to the most diverse of all Northwest forests, those of the Klamath & Siskiyou Mountains...
Conifers - trees with cones and needles - are important to cultures across the globe. This time of year many of us are bringing...
The first forests we visit in this series are the lowland forests around the Salish Sea, home of Douglas firs, western hemlocks, and western...