In this episode, Zach and outdoors intern Skyla Patton prepare for the peak season for finding Oregon's delicious and beautiful state mushroom: the Pacific Golden Chanterelle. Skyla breaks down where and when to find chanterelles, how to eat it, how to get permits to harvest them and trickier questions including whether you can over-harvest the beloved mushroom.

In this episode of Explore Oregon, Zach and Skyla head down Highway 199 to visit southwest Oregon's rugged and beautiful Illinois Valley. It's a place where you can sleep in a treehouse resort, go off trail at the Oregon Caves National Monument, visit art galleries featuring crystal artwork and reach mountain swimming holes, alpine lakes and big summits with a short drive.

Cannabis. Weed. The Devil's Lettuce. Language holds power. On this episode of "How It's Reported," Podcast Editor Danny Latoni talks to Editor-In-Chief of Green Eugene--Eugene's premiere cannabis magazine--about cannabis, how she's working to destigmatize the industry and the future of cannabis journalism.