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.
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 our very first episode, I introduce some of the stories about the natural world and how we understand it told by my home...
In this episode, we continue or exploration of sites in Texas' Hill Country that illustrate how fossils can reveal the behavior of extinct species....