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 first forests we visit in this series are the lowland forests around the Salish Sea, home of Douglas firs, western hemlocks, and western...
The Victorian Era was a chaotic period in which ideas and ideologies bounced off one another, with diverse and surprising results. Nowhere is this...
The Hill Country of central Texas is rich in fossils from the age of dinosaurs to the Ice Ages, and these fossils have been...