The weekend of February 8th-10th is set to bring some of the highest waves of the year to Coastal Oregon. So just what is a "King Tide"? According to the Oregon King Tides Photo Initiative, "In Oregon, we are using the term ‘king tides’ to refer to the highest winter...
The nation's longest continuous stretch of asphalt starts in Newport, Oregon and ends 3,365 miles away in Boston, MA for one heck of a road trip. Stretching from the Pacific Ocean, US Route 20 extends through 12 states before nearly touching the shores of the Atlantic...
It's not the Blue Whale. In fact, it has a total weight of more than 20 Blue Whales, and here's a hint: Alice would be proud. Located in the Blue Mountains within the Malheur National Forest in Eastern Oregon, armillaria ostoyae is an enormous organism dubbed the...
From humble beginnings in 1890s New Jersey and contracting polio at age 7 (which left her with a lifelong limp), Dorothea Lange went on to become one of the most prolific photojournalists of her era. At the time she graduated high school, Lange had never even owned or...
"I was standing still for a moment, looking toward Portland," recalled Thurston Skei, who was climbing Mount Adams just before 8 a.m. on July 2, 1939. "I saw a trail of smoke coming down through the sky. There was a bright flash at the head of the smoke column as if a...
