Researchers find gophers responsible for recovery of Mount St. Helens ecosystem
Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...
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Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life
Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...
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The 24-Hour Experiment That Brought Life Back to Mount St. Helens
In the wake of the most disastrous volcanic eruption in the history of the United States, scientists enlisted the help of an unlikely ally to regenerate life on Mount St. Helens’ barren slopes ...
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Planning to climb Mount St. Helens? Avoid crater rim or risk death
the manager of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Cornices have been a perennial hazard on Mount St. Helens even before the eruption, forming on the peak’s leeward ...
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How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 ... On one side of the mountain was an old-growth forest. Ash from the volcano blanketed the trees, trapping solar radiation and causing needles on the ...
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Forest Service tells Mount St. Helens climbers to avoid crater rim or risk death
the manager of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Cornices have been a perennial hazard on Mount St. Helens even before the eruption, forming on the peak’s leeward ...
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Mount St. Helens falls since 2008
Bohlig had climbed the volcano 68 times before the accident. Joseph Bohlig was an avid and experienced mountain climber who had climbed Mount St. Helens 68 times. He died in February 2010 after ...
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NJ once had huge volcano in same county where new fault line resides
New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...
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This normally quiet Cascades volcano has been trembling. Why scientists say you shouldn’t worry.
When there has been volcanic activity at Mount Adams in the past, it is generally erupting lava flows, not in explosions such as the one that rocked Mount St. Helens in 1980, the most destructive ...
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The puzzle of Spirit Lake has Pacific Northwesterners still dealing with Mount St. Helens eruption 44 years later
Thousands of logs were washed into Spirit Lake after the eruption of Mount St. Helens and have stayed there ... And while the water was toxic with volcanic gasses after the eruption, it is now ...
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How a crew of gophers helped Mount St. Helens bounce back
On May 18, 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens emitted 1.5 million metric ... Michael Allen took a helicopter into an area that the volcanic eruption previously reduced to porous pumice.
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How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living ... On one side of the mountain was an old-growth forest. Ash from the volcano blanketed the trees, trapping solar radiation and ...