Brandon Swanson
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At his Southern Oregon home, Richard Reames makes living art through ‘arborsculpture’
With work that takes years to mature, Oregon artist Richard Reames relishes his "long, slow conversations" with his trees.
Long thought extinct, lampreys return to Oregon’s Miller Lake
Oregon poisoned the lampreys in Miller Lake in the 1950s, only to learn later they were a unique species. Now, a team of volunteers is trying to bring them back.
Oregon’s wildfires from space and on the ground
On Sept. 10, 2020, OPB video teams were deployed across the length of Oregon to document the Santiam (also known as the Beachie Creek Fire), Almeda and Two Four Two wildfires. They encountered over 300 miles of near-unbroken hazardous smoke, pockets of total destruction and the human impact of an unprecedented fire crisis.
Hunting for Mare’s Eggs
Two fish biologists search Upper Klamath Lake for an odd creature known as a Mare’s Egg in this “Oregon Field Guide” short. What they find is as uncommon as it is unusual. And it is only around for a short time each year.