helens' new coat by manyfires

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#mountain #mountains #washington #pnw #pacificnorthwest #mtsthelens #mountsainthelens #mountmargaretviaboundarytrail #mountmargaret #boundarytrail #landscape #fall #autumn #winter #snow #trail #hike #hiking #hikes #hikesof2024 #film #analog #hasselblad #hasselblad500cm #mediumformat #square #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

"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

repose by manyfires

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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

Mount Saint Helens looms over the #Washington landscape.

#PhotoFriday #MountSaintHelens #mountains #forests #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #SacredWonderland

Five or so years ago, @Chasm49 scanned and shared some old slides taken by his brother-in-law, my late lamented Uncle Wes. ...including this one, which I simultaneously think is really cool *and* am mad at Wes for risking his darn life to get. (He was fine! But he probably shouldn't have been there!) (Also I really miss him. Wes died in December of 2020 and nothing's been quite right since.)

#MountSaintHelens #May18 #eruption #volcano