Conifers - trees with cones and needles - are important to cultures across the globe. This time of year many of us are bringing them into our homes in the form of Christmas trees, but to those of us in the Pacific Northwest, conifers are an important part of life year-round. The connections between conifers, their ecosystems, and people in the Northwest are numerous and strong, and over the course of the next month a weekly series of short episodes will explore these connections and delve into the stories told by particular Northwest forests and the conifers that define them.
In the second part of our trip through Mexico City and the link between science and art in Mexican history, we travel back through...
Ninteenth Century France was a political powderkeg, a landscape of radical revolutions and imperial power-grabs. Its art was no less volatile, and while we...
Heading up mountains throughout the Northwest is a great way of seeing how temperature and precipitation can determine which conifer species lives where, but...