Mastodawn

🐿️🌋 In 1980 researchers helicoptered #gophers onto the barren slopes of Mount St. Helens to test their role as #ecosystem engineers.

By digging through volcanic #ash, the #rodents brought vital mycorrhizal #fungi to the surface and sparked a #plant explosion that's still visible four decades later.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a70780384/gophers-mount-st-helens-eruption/

#volcano #ecology #nature #science #biology #washington #mountsthelens #microbes

43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.

A bunch of gophers helped restore the plant life around Mount St. Helens after the devastating eruption in May 1980.

Popular Mechanics

BrownsBay Mar 2

Mount St. Helens this morning from the Cougar Sno-Park. Today was field trip two (of three) of the Volcano Naturalist program with the Mount St. Helens Institute. We hiked through the lower part of Ape Cave by special permit. #photography #mountains #volcano #mountsthelens #PNW #landscape #nature #MSHI

BrownsBay Jan 30

I'm enrolled in the Volcano Naturalist Certification program with Mount St. Helens Institute. The first lecture starts this Tuesday and the first field trip is a week from Saturday. Needless to say, I'm pretty excited about it. It's a fulfillment of a lifelong passion to be a bona fide naturalist. After a career of discovering, characterizing, and cleaning up contamination, this is where I'm at. #naturalist #nature #geology #volcano #history #ecology #MountStHelens #PNW https://www.mshinstitute.org/volcano-naturalist

Volcano Naturalist Certification

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Things David Likes Jan 21

repose by manyfires

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#hikes #hiking #hikesof2024 #landscape #hike #washington #pnw #pacificnorthwest #film #analog #mountsthelens #mountsainthelens #mountain #valley #summer #lake #lakes #feet #self #selfportrait #innova6x9pinhole #lensless #pinhole #viewpoint #pandhandlelake #lakestrail211 #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

Led By Gilded Fools Dec 30

Keep Digging: How Some Scared Little Gophers Brought Mount St. Helens Back to Life

#Gopher #Gophers #MtStHelens #MountSaintHelens #MountStHelens #Volcano #Eruption

https://www.thestranger.com/climate-issue-2025/2025/04/03/79996804/keep-digging

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AI6YR Ben Sep 16, 2025

@JohnJBurnsIII @joy @Viss

Neat! So, that was a thing!

" CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY INFORMATION STATEMENT
U.S. Geological Survey
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 10:42 AM PDT (Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 17:42 UTC)

MOUNT ST. HELENS (VNUM #321050)
46°12' N 122°10'48" W, Summit Elevation 8363 ft (2549 m)
Current Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL
Current Aviation Color Code: GREEN

Summary: Stong winds are resuspending ash at Mount St. Helens.

There is no change in Volcano Alert Level or Aviation Color Code at this time. Mount St. Helens remains at normal, background levels of activity.

Current Observations

Strong easterly–southeasterly winds in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens have picked up loose volcanic ash deposited during the 1980 eruptions and are carrying it to the west–northwest. The resuspended ash has been reported by commercial pilots in the area. "

#volcano #mountsthelens #ash