Cowlitz River sediment from Mount St. Helens raises flood risk, officials say

City and county leaders across Cowlitz County are raising alarms about escalating flood risks along the Cowlitz River, ...
The Columbian

Mount St. Helens’ sediment may have worsened flooding on the Cowlitz River

Leaders around Cowlitz County said Friday that sediment from Mount St. Helens worsened flooding along the Cowlitz River and called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to start dredging it — a request ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Where You Can Still See Signs of the Mt. St. Helens Eruption

When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, the landscape changed in an instant—the geologic version of an instant, anyway. It was the deadliest eruption the United States had ever seen, leveling ...
KGW8

Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier classified as 'very high threat' for eruption

Washington state may not have to worry about hurricanes, but it is volcano country. The United States has 161 active volcanoes – all in the western U.S. – but only 18 are classified as a "very high ...
StamfordAdvocate

A return to Mount St. Helens: rediscovered before-and-after photos

It was the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history, and its reverberations are still being felt today. Thirty-seven years ago, Mount St. Helens exploded, killing 57 people, leveling more than 250 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Rising from the Ashes

Virginia Dale was in the first helicopter load of ecologists to land at Mount St. Helens after it erupted 25 years ago this month. "I just remember how bizarre it was going out into that landscape," ...