Find out what endurance riding is all about and why those who enjoy this equestrian sport jokingly wonder if it's a hobby or addiction.

For more than a decade, a herd of elk has been hanging out in and around the up-scale coastal town of Gearhart, browsing the golf course and even taking refreshing dips in the surf. But as the herd is growing, so are concerns about safety and property destruction. We talk to the locals and wildlife experts about why the elk come here, whether they're a nuisance or an opportunity.

We track the "green" that noble fir boughs bring to our local economy as they are harvested from our national forests, fashioned into wreaths, garlands, and swags and then shipped all over the country.

Some welders, a photographer, and a retired biologist have all had front row seats to watch birds that have found a way not only to live with, but thrive off of humans. Osprey, the original sea hawk, are doing fine these days. It wasn't always this way. Now osprey very much like what we build.

A tour of northwest wilderness areas marks the 50th year of the Act that preserved them.

Whenever a good snow storm is predicted for Portland, Win Goodbody and his friends plan to meet at Powell's Books for an impromptu Norwegian ski race through the streets of northwest Portland.

Ever wonder how those cool terrain parks get the shapes that allow snowboarders to execute spectacular jumps and death-defying flips? They're the meticulous work of Mt. Bachelor's skilled team of snowcat operators. We ride along to see how it's done.

In a multi-year experiment two beekeepers attempt to breed stronger bees, capable of surviving winter in Portland. Tim Wessels & Glen Andresen were tired of having to import bees from California and Hawaii to replenish their hives. We follow them for a year during which their colonies get slammed by a brutally cold winter.

U.S. Navy veteran Chad Brown deals with his PTSD through fly-fishing. Now he's bringing the art of fly-fishing to urban youth who lack access to nature and have their own issues to deal with.

Some kids would rather play video games and battle zombies than play in nature. But "Trackers Earth" has crafted a way to teach kids essential outdoors skills while feeding their desire to battle zombies! Zombie Survival Camp is a fun role-playing camp that gives kids exposure to the natural world while teaching them how to avoid the hordes of flesh-eating zombies unleashed during the apocalypse.

For nearly 50 years, residents of tiny Glide, Oregon (population 2,000, near Roseburg) have been collecting and showing their favorite wildflowers. We follow the collection, identification, display set-up, and show of Oregon's loveliest wildflowers.

One group of sandhill cranes skips the long migration to California and spends winter at Sauvie Island, near Portland. In summer, they head only to British Columbia, while other populations venture farther north to Alaska. This information was gleaned by researcher Gary Ivey after he put satellite trackers on the legs of cranes in Oregon and again in Alaska.

We tag along with shepherdess Briana Murphy as she wields her herd of brush-eating goats from the sublime vineyards of the Willamette Valley to the industrial wastelands of NE Portland.

Tim Palmer has written 22 guidebooks to nature, rivers, and wild places. We joined him for some paddling to get his thoughts on the river life and why Oregon has access to some of the best rivers in the west.

Sage grouse, a desert bird that depends on sagebrush, has been in decline. The US government may add it to the endangered species list. Ranchers fear the grouse could become their spotted owl, restricting use of western lands. A number of groups are adopting conservation measures in hopes it will be enough to stop the listing as endangered.

An expedition into the crater of Mount Saint Helens in search of a glacier cave system that has never before been entered.

An Oregon photographer who was just 8-years-old when the Wilderness Act passed celebrates 50 years of protecting public lands in a most personal way. Peter Marbach not only seeks out wilderness for his nature photography but he says it was vital to his own healing from emergency heart surgery. His favorite spot is an alpine meadow off tail and high above timberline on Mount Hood.

In the early 2000s we visited Portland's Reed College campus to look at what was then the beginning of an effort to bring salmon back to an urban stream. We returned this past summer to see how things have turned out. We find an urban creek that's now home to river otters, brook lamprey, steelhead and salmon.

The March 27, 1964 "Good Friday" earthquake rocked Southcentral Alaska with 5 minutes of shaking. The magnitude 9.2 earthquake left communities in ruins and triggered a tsunami that traveled south at over 500 mph towards Oregon. When the tsunami struck Oregon and California hours later, it destroyed homes, flooded communities and killed 11 people. It remains the largest tsunami in U.S history.

The Reach and Treat Team trains every month to take professional paramedic skills into the wild. AMR provides advanced life support in the wilderness when medics join in rescues in the snow, dangling from ropes and in rushing rivers.