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Tribal Land Management, Colorful Cowgirl, Photo Essay

S34 E11 / 27m 23s
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde manage their land with a long-term vision for the food and resources they want to see for generations into the future. The "Colorful Cowgirl" is putting her personal twist into a 4-generation family tradition of handmaking mecate reins out of horsehair. Rhododendron Garden photo essay.
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Think Wild, Gorge Gliders, Japanese Gardens Photo Essay

S34 E10 / 25m 40s
Think Wild gives central Oregon wildlife a chance as staff and volunteers rescue, treat, rehabilitate and release animals back into the wild. Then, for teenagers of the Hood River Soaring Club, their first license won't be to drive a car but to fly a glider plane. And finally, enjoy a photo essay of Portland’s lovely Japanese Gardens.
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Deschutes River Poo Patrol, Apple Bots, Horse Trainer

S34 E9 / 23m 54s
Everyone poops, but on a river as precious as the Deschutes, it’s “Two-Ply’s” job to keep things tidy. The future is now as robot drones pick apples in Washington’s orchards. And we introduce you to a man who keeps the ancient arts of horse training alive in Oregon’s high desert.
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Salmon People: The Fight to Preserve a Way of Life

S34 E6 / 27m 51s
When the salmon are running up the Columbia River, Native people are there with them. The river is a way of life for the Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum, the Salmon People. Over the last century and a half, they have watched as forces eroded their access to salmon. The stakes in their fight to preserve the salmon, and their way of life, are existential.
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Bison Ranching, Willamette Recreation, Wallowa Rain PE

S34 E5 / 23m 25s
Two sisters take over the family business at the Stangel Bison Ranch in Enterprise, Oregon; As the once polluted Willamette River has grown cleaner, it’s attracted hordes of swimmers, motorboaters, kayakers and SUPers. And that’s brought a new problems from overcrowding and incompatible uses; A good cleansing rainstorm in the Wallowas turned out to be one photographer's delight.
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Cold Dipping, BIPOC Ski, Oregon Olives

S34 E4 / 28m 33s
Getting into painfully cold water has become a way of life for Ivana Maclay; Open Slopes PDX is making skiing and snowboarding more accessible and welcoming to Black, Indigenous and other people of color; A small group of growers are betting the farm that olive oil might be Oregon’s new pinot noir.
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Sumpter Valley Railroad, Wolverine Search, Yoder Mill

S34 E3 / 27m 58s
A storybook Christmas comes to life as this small-town, all-volunteer railroad fires up their antique locomotives; Cascades Wolverine Project aims to support wolverine recovery in the Cascade Mountains through monitoring, and community science; The Yoder Mill mill has been in Clackamas County since the 1800's when the Yoder family came out west.
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Mounted Archery; Beaver Assisted Restoration; Trail Signs

S34 E2 / 26m 9s
Katie Stearns helps lead a new generation to take up the ancient martial art of shooting arrows from the backs of galloping horses; Revisit the 2009 Bridge Creek Project in eastern Oregon for an update on the success of the role beavers play in the landscape; Anyone who has hiked in a National Forest has seen one of the iconic trail signs crafted by Mount Adams Ranger Station volunteer, Dan Finn.
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Search for the Skyline Trail; Octopus Brains; Newt Balls

S34 E1 / 27m 35s
A father and daughter’s search for the Skyline Trail is as much about a trail lost to time, as it is about how nature helped forge a family’s bonds; Octopuses are incredibly smart, yet the majority of their neurons exist in their arms and suckers and not in their brain, making them as close to alien intelligence as we can find on Earth; Newt Balls Photo Essay.
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