I travel to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument every few years and I am perpetually amazed at how the Phoenix rises from the ashes. That is, the place isn’t a dead moonscape anymore. Indeed, only a few years after the blast, sprouts of this and that were pushing their way through feet of ash […]
For those who remember “the big one” when Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980, you will recall that it was a gorgeous spring day. Although volcanologist had been on pins and needles about an eruption, life continued down in the valley a lot like every day since the last blow up centuries before. After the […]
