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# When Palm Trees Thrived in the Pacific Northwest
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/when-palm-trees-thrived-in-the-pacific-northwest-txrime/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:10:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:09:02.000Z
- Description: What fossils can teach us about the past — and future — climates of the our region.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 1, Episode 12, #ZZZ_Episode_382e6623-c9f2-4fad-acec-4451fd522476, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

A 12,000-year-old pine cone, a fossilized ginkgo leaf — Knute Berger dives into the Burke Museum’s paleobotany collection to find out what Washington use to look like and to contemplate which of the state’s former, and considerably warmer, climates would be the most suitable dwelling for a modern-day Mossback. These specimens might help scientists understand, and prepare for, climate change.