Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square ...
Following several recent rim failures, two cornice breaks and the death of an experienced climber on Mount St. Helens, the U.S. Forest Service is asking climbers to stay away from the rim and ...
Six years post-experiment, there were 40,000 plants thriving on the gopher plots. The untouched land remained mostly barren.
Mount Saint Helens in Washington ... “to pave seven highway lanes three feet thick from New York City to Portland, Oregon,” ...
The human-engineered tunnel that drains Spirit Lake on Mount St. Helens is buckling because of geological activity. If ...
St. Helens’ mountain recovery shows how gophers and fungi revived barren land. They spurred long-lasting ecological regrowth ...
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has demonstrated a long-term positive impact on the soil and plant life. Scientists ...
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours. The ...
On May 18, 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens emitted 1.5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere while its pyroclastic lava flow incinerated virtually everything within a ...
Courtesy of Photo by Matt Payne of Durango, Colorado|Getty Images Portland lies just south ... are peaks of three mountainous volcanoes: Mount St. Helens, Mount Tabor and Mount Hood, all of ...
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