Smithsonian Magazine12d
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 ...
Yahoo News10d
Researchers find gophers responsible for recovery of Mount St. Helens ecosystem
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of the massive eruption that led to the widespread destruction of ecosystems around Mount St. Helens in 1980 believe a particular species ...
Boise State Public Radio11d
Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life
Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...
Popular Mechanics11d
40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They're Tiny Heroes.
A new study reveals that an unconventional ecological intervention tactic is still providing benefits 40 years later After the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated the local environment ...
WAMC11d
Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life
Just two years earlier, a cataclysm erased life in the landscape. The explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 blew out the mountain's northern flank and destroyed some 135 square miles of ...
OPB11d
Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life
A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had ...
Popular Science19d
How a crew of gophers helped Mount St. Helens bounce back
On May 18, 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens emitted 1.5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere while its pyroclastic lava flow incinerated virtually everything within a ...
Labroots14d
After Only 24 Hours, Gophers Helped Restore Mt. St. Helens
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square miles (57,000 square kilometers), according to the USGS. This blistering ...
Yahoo8d
40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano—Today, They’re Tiny Heroes
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 ...
technologynetworks19d
Gophers Tilled the Soil After Mount St. Helens Erupted –Their Efforts Are Still Visible 40 Years Later
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living ... gophers might be able to help regenerate lost plant and animal life on the mountain. Two years after the eruption, they ...
Yahoo News11d
40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They're Tiny Heroes.
A new study reveals that an unconventional ecological intervention tactic is still providing benefits 40 years later After the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated the local environment, ...