During the most recent Ice Age, floods of an almost unimaginable size swept across northwestern North America, changing the face of the landscape, stoking one of the liveliest debates in the history of geology, and shaping the region's history and culture in surprising ways. In this first of three episodes, we'll explore western Montana, where the floods - and the study of them - began.
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....
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 first forests we visit in this series are the lowland forests around the Salish Sea, home of Douglas firs, western hemlocks, and western...
