The 2,700-acre lake now sits at the center of a restricted research area taking up roughly a quarter of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which Congress set aside in ...

The area was declared a national monument in January 2025 ... Covering an area roughly 10 times the size of Mount St. Helens, Medicine Lake Volcano is one of the largest volcanoes in the Cascades ...

Amanda Brewer was fired in February from her job at the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Headquarters in Amboy. The monument is part of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which ...

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A geologist from Eastern Washington State College returned from a research trip and warned that one of Washington’s volcanoes ...

Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion ... Mountain runoff carries ashen remains of what was the volcano’s peak into the North Fork Toutle River and down ...

Until Mount St. Helens blew in 1980 ... and plug dome—can be found in Lassen Volcanic National Park, where they literally bubble and steam.

The Columbia Theatre in Longview, Washington, is celebrating its centennial. Theater officials say the 1980 eruption of Mount ...

As the region slowly recovered, Mount St. Helens became a tourist destination. But the volcano ... the monument. At least 15 forest service employees from the surrounding Gifford Pinchot National ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over how the Department of Government Efficiency's latest spending cuts may trigger a deadly volcanic disaster along the West Coast. As Elon Musk's sprawling cuts ...

A very common case study for volcanoes is the eruption of Mount St Helens in the USA in 1980. Other case studies include the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily in 1974 and Heimaey eruption in ...