Mossback's Northwest

Upon Further Review: Race and the Outdoors

Racism in the early outdoors movement — and among early 20th-century progressives — left a long-lasting imprint on Northwest wilderness recreation. Out & Back host Alison Mariella Désir and Mossback’s Northwest host Knute Berger look at the legacy of that phenomenon in light of new information after the airing of an episode that added to the story of an outdoor advocate.

Upon Further Review: Race and the Outdoors

6m 34s

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    The Mighty Columbia River

    28m 46s

    Host Knute Berger mines the Pacific Northwest’s historical and cultural nuggets. This season's Mossback Special reintroduces viewers to the history of our region-defining Columbia River. From gigantic floods to thousands of shipwrecks to the bucolic lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains where the journey of the Columbia River begins. “Roll on, Columbia” from a whole new perspective.

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    The Columbia: Beginning and End

    S10 E8 - 7m 20s

    If finding the river’s mouth was difficult, so too was locating the river’s remote origins in British Columbia. It wasn’t followed from headwaters-to mouth by explorers until 1811. The river has been tamed by dams.  Fed by rain, ice and snowmelt, one wonders with climate change, will the Columbia “roll on” in more than song?

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