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  • Visit world's largest trees with trip to the Grove of the Titans (repost)

    Visit world's largest trees with trip to the Grove of the Titans (repost)
    2025/12/09
    In this reposted episode, host Zach Urness talks about the mythic Grove of Titans, a collection of the largest redwood trees on earth, located just south of the Oregon and California state line. This podcast, which originally published in 2021, focuses on a recently completed trail system that provides access to the Grove inside northern California's Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Previously, the grove was closed after overuse and crowding brought damage to the trees and surrounding forest. Zach details what makes the Titans, which rise 320 feet and are 1,500 years old, so unique and special. He also details the history of how the grove was discovered by scientists and big tree hunters in the 1990s and then subsequently damaged by overuse and internet fame.
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    25 分
  • Find hot trout fishing in the 'disappearing river' of Lookout Point

    Find hot trout fishing in the 'disappearing river' of Lookout Point
    2025/12/05
    In this episode, host Zach Urness goes fishing in an unusual place — the bottom of an empty reservoir on a stream that only appears for a few weeks every year. The place in question is Lookout Point Lake, a reservoir southeast of Eugene just off Highway 58. The reservoir undergoes a deep drawdown each year to help endangered fish, and in the process exposes reservoir bed — and a river — that's been submerged for almost 70 years. Zach and fish biologist Greg Taylor headed out to fish this "new river" for trout last weekend, in the process hiking past ancient ruins and sweeping mudflats. They talk about where to go, what you can catch and what fishing the "deep drawdown" is all about.
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    16 分
  • Trailblazing Oregon Fish and Wildlife director talks fishing fees, wolves, coho boom and more

    Trailblazing Oregon Fish and Wildlife director talks fishing fees, wolves, coho boom and more
    2025/11/28
    In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks with Debbie Colbert, director of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Colbert became the first female director of ODFW, an agency tracing its history back to the 1800s, in May of 2024. In the podcast, she talked about her background as a field scientist and her first year as director, before jumping into hot-button topics like fee increases for fishing and hunting licenses, the future of Oregon's hatcheries and wild fish, wolf management, whale entanglement and some big wins for like the coastal coho salmon recovery.
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    57 分
  • Getting a Christmas tree in Oregon's national forest is affordable and fun. Here's how to do it

    Getting a Christmas tree in Oregon's national forest is affordable and fun. Here's how to do it
    2025/11/22
    In this episode, host Zach Urness reposts his tips and tricks to finding the perfect Christmas tree in Oregon's national forests. With a $5 permit, you can travel far and wide in the national forests to find a tree to bring home — whether you live in Portland, Salem, Eugene or elsewhere. It's not always as easy as it seems, however. The podcast breaks down where to get a permit, which forest to target, what elevation to find success and other tips on exploring in the snow.
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    20 分
  • The glory of Oregon's 'scenic bikeways' with author Dan Shryock

    The glory of Oregon's 'scenic bikeways' with author Dan Shryock
    2025/11/07
    In this episode, host Zach Urness talks with author Dan Shryock about his book on Oregon's Scenic Bikeways. Shryock, who wrote "Cycling Across Oregon" in 2024, talks about what inspired the book, his eight favorite rides and what he discovered along the way. The routes Shryock rode took him through deep forest, over the Cascade Mountains, onto the Oregon Coast and into eastern Oregon canyons.
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    46 分
  • A delicious but notorious fish mysteriously shows up at Lookout Point, Upper Willamette Basin

    A delicious but notorious fish mysteriously shows up at Lookout Point, Upper Willamette Basin
    2025/10/24
    In this episode, host Zach Urness looks at the curious case of how a non-native fish, walleye, showed up at Lookout Point Reservoir and was then flushed into the Upper Willamette River Basin. Urness interviews two fish biologists about how walleye, a tasty but controversial fish, were discovered at the reservoir east of Eugene and spawned to become a fishery popular with anglers. In 2023 and 2024, the walleye were pushed downstream by deep reservoir drawdowns and have been getting caught in new places. Biologists are waiting to see if walleye will establish a new population — which could be bad for endangered salmon and steelhead.
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    30 分
  • Favorite podcast tales volume 2: Detroit ghost wagon, Hoodoo history, Proposal Rock, New River drug bust

    Favorite podcast tales volume 2: Detroit ghost wagon, Hoodoo history, Proposal Rock, New River drug bust
    2025/10/17
    In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness brings back a second volume of his favorite weird, wild and quirky stories from the first 70 episodes of the podcast. This edition features: - Why Hood River was once called "Dog River" - A ghost wagon rising from the Detroit Lake - A major drug bust on the Oregon Coast that led to a beautiful collection of trails - The history of Hoodoo Ski Area - Why it's dangerous to visit Proposal Rock with a significant other - Valley of the Giants and the Grove of Titans
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    58 分
  • Favorite podcast tales volume 1: Betrayal in Grants Pass, a nuke at Cape Kiwanda, D River showdown

    Favorite podcast tales volume 1: Betrayal in Grants Pass, a nuke at Cape Kiwanda, D River showdown
    2025/10/13
    Favorite podcast tales volume 1: Betrayal in Grants Pass, a nuke at Cape Kiwanda, D River showdown by Zach Urness / Statesman Journal
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    47 分