Chris Santella

Oct 10, 2024 | traveloregon.com | Tina Lassen |Chris Santella |Joseph Gallivan

The Columbia River has been a vital source of food, fresh water, transportation and trade for thousands of years. Its stories come to life at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, not far from where the river meets the Pacific and completes its 1,243-mile journey through the Northwest. First opened in 1963, the museum moved to its current location along Astoria’s riverfront in 1982, and it’s been growing and improving ever since.

Mar 7, 2024 | reed.edu | Chris Santella |Reed College

From her thesis at Reed to the remote wilds of Alaska, bush pilot Lana Tollas ’19 has always found a way to take flight By Chris Santella | “Want to see some bears?” Lana Tollas ’19 asks from the pilot seat of the single-engine De Havilland Beaver aircraft that’s carrying three friends and me toward Pegati Lake, some 100 miles southeast of Bethel, Alaska. Which is to say just west of nowhere. “Sure!” we speak into our headsets. Lana eases back on the throttle and banks the plane to the left....

Jul 19, 2023 | amazon.ca | Peter P. Marra |Chris Santella

"One of Forbes.com’s 10 Best Conservation and Environment Books of 2016""We know that nature's theater bristles with industrious carnivores and omnivores--hawks that pluck cardinals right off a bird feeder, squirrels that grab eggs from crows' nests, and crows that grab babies from squirrels' nests. What makes free-ranging cats such an exceptionally dangerous threat to birds and other wildlife?