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How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of DiggingAfter the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...
Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...
Goodwin, a volunteer steward with the Mount St. Helens Institute, watched as two climbers arrived at the 8,300-foot summit, brushed past him and sat down right on the edge of the crumbling crater ...
Goodwin, a volunteer steward with the Mount St. Helens Institute, watched as two climbers arrived at the 8,300-foot summit, brushed past him and sat down right on the edge of the crumbling crater ...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square ...
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 ...
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 ...
“You don’t want to get too close to the summit,” Shorey said to his camera ... He died soon after falling into the Mount St. Helens crater March 29, 2024.Rocky Shorey February 2010 ...
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.
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