Pure mountain spring water gushes from the ground high up in the Cascade Mountains. Forest Service hydrologist, Gordon Grant, studies these springs which originate from ancient underground resevoirs. The resevoirs are fed by winter snowfall that melts and percolates through the rock and soil. Eventually these frigid springs feed into the Willamette River a hundred miles away.

First Broadcast: 2004
Producer: Jim Newman

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Wolves return to Oregon in packs
by Ed Jahn | 11/20/2009
It seems like just yesterday I went to eastern ORegon to report on the “potential” for wolves to return to Oregon. That was in 2006 (episode 1607). Well, there have been reports all throughout the last year of wolves showing up, with a few videos offered as proof, followed by a wolf attack on livestock [...]
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