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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 ...
The 24-Hour Experiment That Brought Life Back to Mount St. Helens
Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...
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Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto Mount St Helens For 1 Day. 40 Years Later, The Effect Is Astonishing
When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...