The mountains of Oregon have a way of keeping secrets, but this one towers over the rest: living trees that germinated before the first European maps sketched the Pacific Northwest. Biologists, armed with corers and careful field notes, have verified several giants at roughly five centuries old, their rings stacked like silent annals of ...
On a gray spring morning at Willamette Falls, the spectacle looks almost cinematic: sleek sea lions patrolling the churn while muscle upstream toward the ladder. The drama is real, and so are the stakes – some runs in the Pacific Northwest still teeter after decades of habitat loss, warming rivers, and dams. Scientists and ...
In the heart of Oregon’s high desert, just south of Bend, lies a vast volcanic landscape that whispers tales of fire and transformation. This is Newberry Volcano—a colossal, yet often overlooked, geological marvel that sprawls across 1,200 square miles, making it the largest volcano in the Cascade Range. Despite its immense size and complex history, ...
