🐿️🌋 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."
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a70780384/gophers-mount-st-helens-eruption/
"After the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated the local environment, scientists set a few gophers loose on some patches of ground, hoping they would kick up bacteria and fungi.
That uncovered fungi … created a microbial community that allowed plant life to better obtain and retain nutrients."
#Washington #PNW #Wildlife #Gophers #Environment #MountSaintHelens
🏀 NEW: 'The NBA will find you.' 🐏 The money may be greener away from Colorado State, Kyle Jorgensen, but the grass usually isn't. Just ask Kyan Evans. Better yet, ask #CSURams icon David Roddy. The @DenverPost just did: 👇
https://denverpost.com/2026/03/07/csu-rams-basketball-david-roddy-kyle-jorgensen-transfer-portal/
#NBA #NBAbasketball #NBAnews #probasketball #basktball #NBADraft #NCAA #NCAAbasketball #MarchMadness #CollegeBasketball #colleges #CSURams #Relentless #RAMILY #NCAAhops #MobyMadness #transferportal #Minnesota #Gophers #sports #news
@Jorro Also: #PWHL #Frost players Kelly Pannek and Taylor Heise spoke about the situation. Both are #Minnesota natives, played for the #Gophers and will be representing the U.S. at the Olympics next month.
Kelly Pannek and Taylor Heise, members of the PWHL's Minnesota Frost and USA's Olympic women's hockey team spoke out in support of Minnesota residents who are "standing up for what's right amongst the unnecessary and just horrifying things that are happening" at the hands of ICE.
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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