The first forests we visit in this series are the lowland forests around the Salish Sea, home of Douglas firs, western hemlocks, and western red cedars - and the densest concentration of people in the Northwest. Conifer forests are a big part of what has drawn people to the area for millenia and are central to local art and culture. This episode explores just how these trees define a region and how we, in turn, define them.
The dense rainforests of the Oregon Coast Range, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and British Columbia's Vancouver Island are an ideal habitat for western red cedar....
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...
I'm giving myself a brief mid-season break as I catch up on a backlog of work and get ready for a seasonally-appropriate series in...
