The Evergreen

Nov 18 2024 43 ep. 27 mins 53
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OPB’s weekly podcast creates an audio portrait of the Pacific Northwest. We tell the stories of the people, places, communities and cultures that make up this region. It’s a podcast about the place YOU live, the places you love, and the geography you feel connected to.

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Oregon’s old forests keep getting cut down, despite Biden’s promise to protect them

Nov 18 2024 32 mins  
Oregon’s old forests keep getting cut down, despite Biden’s promise to protect them    Episode description:    On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect mature and old growth forests on federal lands.    But over two years later, these forests were still being cut under the Biden administration's watch.

Behind the camera lens with OPB’s Photo Editor

Nov 11 2024 34 mins  
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And that’s never been more true than in our fractured-attention-span, doom-scrolling age. People can process an image in as little as 13 milliseconds — and that often means deciding whether to read the story below that image - or not - exactly that quickly.    So the choices journalists make about what image to put

Oregon women fought for decades to access their right to vote

Nov 04 2024 23 mins  
This election season, we’re looking back at the fight for women’s suffrage. When Oregon became a state, only white men could vote. Women worked for more than four decades to get men to vote for their rights. Racism hampered the movement, as many white women didn’t want to work with women of color in their activism. Black women formed their own groups and pushed ha

Drug recriminalization in Oregon is an ongoing experiment

Oct 28 2024 26 mins  
It’s been a little over a month since Oregon officially ended its experiment with drug decriminalization. Now, there’s a new set of experiments going on around the state. When people are caught with small amounts of illegal drugs, the consequences depend on a variety of factors, including what county they happen to be in. Some counties have gone back to charging people

All about Oregon’s animation magic

Oct 21 2024 24 mins  
This week, we’re talking all about Oregon’s award-winning animation scene. Just think of Coraline, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Will Vinton Studio’s California Raisins ad from 1986.   OPB’s Oregon Art Beat producer Eric Slade helped make a documentary about that state’s animation industry, and he’s here to break down how creators

Presidential sleepover leaves lasting memories

Oct 14 2024 35 mins  
When President Jimmy Carter traveled, he sometimes stayed in people’s homes. This started as a way to save money when he was running for Georgia governor, but he continued these home visits even after being elected to America’s highest office. He stayed with at least eight different families around the country, one of which was in Oregon. Producer Nora Colie was six yea

At Work With a burlesque performer, private investigator and Court Appointed Special Advocate

Oct 07 2024 27 mins  
For our latest “At Work With” episode, where we talk to Pacific Northwesterners with cool jobs and ask them your questions about what it’s like to do what they do, we bring you along as we go to work with a burlesque performer, private investigator and Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA).    For our “At Work With” series, let us know who

What the horsewomen of the Hen Party found in Eastern Oregon’s great outdoors

Sep 30 2024 27 mins  
For some 30 years in the early 20th century, Oregonian Jean Birnie led a trailblazing group of horsewomen called the Hen Party on annual horse packing trips in northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. Inspired by their legacy, a group of Hen Party descendents retraced the steps of their foremothers on an adventure into the Wallowas of their own, almost a century later.  

What to do with the bounty of Oregon’s harvest

Sep 23 2024 39 mins  
It’s that time of year when many Oregonians are enjoying an abundance of garden produce. Evergreen host Jenn Chávez learned about making blackberry jam and got some advice on what to do with her own garden peppers from Heather Arndt Anderson, the food writer and culinary historian behind OPB’s Superabundant newsletter. OPB’s Crystal Ligori offers us a windo

Disaster 101: What do you need in your emergency kit?

Sep 16 2024 18 mins  
On today’s episode, we’re preparing for disasters. Whether it’s extreme heat, wildfires or a looming earthquake –  we know how unpredictable disasters in the Pacific Northwest can be. What are some things we can have prepared in an emergency like this?    OPB’s lands and environmental policies reporter April Ehrlich, who’s reported