Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

St. Helens’ mountain recovery shows how gophers and fungi revived barren land. They spurred long-lasting ecological regrowth ...

The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living ... The benefits from that single day were undeniable ...

St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside ... A lone ecologist, Charlie Crisafulli, spent months in the blast zone and was astonished and puzzled by how quickly plants and animals ...

It will be years before people will be able to reach some of the views, trails and a visitor center at Mount St. Helens ...