“These trees have their own mycorrhizal fungi that picked up nutrients from the dropped needles and helped fuel rapid tree ...

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

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

A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St ...

Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were magical.

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, covering 22,000 square miles with 540 million tons of ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of the massive eruption that led to the widespread destruction ...

The trees were evidence of a past eruption ... research area taking up roughly a quarter of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which Congress set aside in 1982 ...

The explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 blew out the ... healthier fungal communities compared to clear-cut areas. Trees that lost their needles to the eruption's dense ash coating ...