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Episode 1804

Last broadcast Thursday October 26, 2006

Wildcat Haven

We take you into a truly special place not open to the public. Wildcat Haven is a rescue facility for exotic cats like the African servile, lynx and cougar.

For more information:

Wildcat Haven Website

• Read about the activities at Wildcat Haven and see photos of some of the rescued animals.
• Online: www.wildcathaven.org/

Walking History Tour of Portland

Take a fascinating, walking history lesson of Portland with Laura Foster.

For more information:

Portland Hill Walks by Laura Foster

• With Portland Hill Walks, you'll take twenty meandering, view-studded strolls from the city's forested canyons to its cityscape peaks, as you explore Portland's streets, stairs, trails, and hidden passageways. Each hill walk focuses on the city’s history, geology, and built environment, with anecdotes sprinkled throughout about colorful past residents like Oswald West, Maurine Neuberger, or Lilla Leach. Each route also provides offbeat horticultural information, even delving into the uses American Indians made of native Northwest plants. Some walks reveal the secrets held within the city’s public art; others reveal the secrets of our much-altered landscape: which mountainside was terraced in stairsteps, which lake was buried under tons of muck, and which prominent rock shuddered in the onslaught of the earth’s most catastrophic floods. Come discover the stories, spirit, and beauty of a town rated among the nation's most livable places.
• Online: PortlandHillWalks.com

Freshwater Mussels

The unappealing mussel found in stream beds is actually a great source of information on the stream's history and health.