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.
The identification and naming of new species may not be the most glamorous field of biology, but every species' name tells a story about...
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 final episode of our exploration of the Missoula Floods, we travel to the Columbia River Gorge and the Willamette Valley, where the...