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.
On the far eastern edge of the Northwest, conifers encounter the region's most extreme conditions: biting cold and deep snow on the high peaks,...
On this episode we continue our journey along the path of the Missoula Floods. Having encountered the giant lake that caused them, we now...
During the most recent Ice Age, floods of an almost unimaginable size swept across northwestern North America, changing the face of the landscape, stoking...