After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...

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

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 ... Two years after the eruption, they tested this theory. "They're often considered pests, but we thought they would take old soil, move it to the surface ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying ... In an area of land that was clearcut before the eruption and void of most animals and vegetation, the ecosystem still appears to be struggling ...

The explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 blew out the ... The gophers stayed for only about 24 hours before being whisked away. But their visit altered a landscape where, after the ...

Before the gopher drop-off, only about a dozen plants were reported to have emerged from the pumice slabs that Mount St. Helens eruption had turned the land into. But six years after the gophers ...

Just moments before the most powerful volcanic ... (VEI), which puts it on par with the explosions of Mount Vesuvius in 79CE and Mount St. Helens in 1980. However, two monitoring stations located ...