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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How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging
After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...
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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.
A new study reveals that an unconventional ecological intervention tactic is still providing benefits 40 years later After the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated the local environment ...
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Researchers find gophers responsible for recovery of Mount St. Helens ecosystem
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of the massive eruption that led to the widespread destruction of ecosystems around Mount St. Helens in 1980 believe a particular ...
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40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They're Tiny Heroes.
A new study reveals that an unconventional ecological intervention tactic is still providing benefits 40 years later After the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated the local environment, ...
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Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life
Just two years earlier, a cataclysm erased life in the landscape. The explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 blew out the mountain's northern flank and destroyed some 135 square miles of ...