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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40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They're Tiny Heroes.
It starts with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May of 1980. It was the most destructive volcanic event in American history, claiming 57 lives and causing staggering ecological damage.
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Researchers find gophers responsible for recovery of Mount St. Helens ecosystem
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the ... but these levels fall well within the volcano’s normal range of seismic activity. According to volcanologists, large avalanches and ...
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Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life
said in a news release about the researchers' return to the volcano. A stripe of gopher-visited land in the Pumice Plain area of Mount St. Helens is thick with vegetation, while surrounding areas ...