Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...
W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has demonstrated a long-term positive impact on the soil and plant life. Scientists ...
St. Helens’ mountain recovery shows how gophers and fungi revived barren land. They spurred long-lasting ecological regrowth ...
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists ...
Gophers tilled the soil for 24 hours after Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, and the benefits are still visible 40 years ...
The video shows him grabbing a pair of wrestling shoes hanging in a tree and running back to campus ... Steveson went on to ...
I chewed thoughtfully on a veggie burger from Culver’s and gazed out the car window at the boughs of tamarack trees glowing ...
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of ...
Kelsey Asbille is immobile for the majority of the cat-and-mouse genre film, and the pitch of a helpless protagonist ...
By unearthing microbes and fungi, these rodents helped save an ecosystem almost decimated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens ...
Six years post-experiment, there were 40,000 plants thriving on the gopher plots. The untouched land remained mostly barren.