In the final episode of this series, we journey to the most diverse of all Northwest forests, those of the Klamath & Siskiyou Mountains along the Oregon-California border. We explore how climate and geology combine to generate this richness, as well as how human activity has put it at risk. Despite how complex these forests are, we have tools at our disposal for predicting their future and for protecting them, for the good of both wildlife and us.
In this episode, we continue or exploration of sites in Texas' Hill Country that illustrate how fossils can reveal the behavior of extinct species....
The identification and naming of new species may not be the most glamorous field of biology, but every species' name tells a story about...
The first forests we visit in this series are the lowland forests around the Salish Sea, home of Douglas firs, western hemlocks, and western...