Book Description
In this fascinating book you will see Mount St. Helens as viewed by 19th century painters and by photographers from the turn of the century to the present day.
Author : Chuck Williams
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Nature
ISBN :
In this fascinating book you will see Mount St. Helens as viewed by 19th century painters and by photographers from the turn of the century to the present day.
Author : Chuck Williams
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781558683105
View the grandeur and the intimate detail of this beloved mountain as seen by 19th-century painters and pioneers as well as contemporary photographers.
Author : Eric Wagner
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295746947
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain, but when forest scientist Jerry Franklin helicoptered into the blast area a couple of weeks after the eruption, he found small plants bursting through the ash and animals skittering over the ground. Stunned, he realized he and his colleagues had been thinking of the volcano in completely the wrong way. Rather than being a dead zone, the mountain was very much alive. Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists ever since, and in After the Blast Eric Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals Franklin saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.
Author : Virginia H. Dale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387281509
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens caused tragic loss of life and property, but also created a unique opportunity to study a huge disturbance of natural systems and their subsequent responses. This book synthesizes 25 years of ecological research into of volcanic activity, and shows what actually happens when a volcano erupts, what the immediate and long-term dangers are, and how life reasserts itself in the environment.
Author : Christine Colasurdo
Publisher :
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 9781887853323
Author : David A. Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1439644152
The story of Mount St. Helens is that of an active volcano and human interaction with it. The mountain is culturally important to the regional native people. Its Cowlitz name, Lawetlatla, means Person From Whom Smoke Comes. Early European settlers saw opportunities to make a living from the natural resources, and people fell in love with the forested valleys and slopes of the glacier-clad peak with the blue lake at its foot. Forgotten were the eruptions of the 19th century and the fact that the landscape was a product of frequent violent explosions. A report from the 1970s reminded locals that Mount St. Helens is an active volcano and could erupt again before the end of the 20th century. Only a few people at that time were aware of what the mountain was capable of, and many were surprised at the events that took place in 1980.
Author : Connie Manson
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : David A. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Ecology
ISBN :
Author : Thom Corcoran
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Mountain ecology
ISBN : 9780887140006
See where a mountain has been built and torn apart, and is now rebuilding before our eyes. Witness the eruption in a second-by-second photo sequence. This 9" x 12" book is overflowing with beautiful photos and interpretive text on this National Park for your enjoyment.
Author : Rhonda Mazza
Publisher :
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ecological succession
ISBN :
"The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens dramatically transformed forests, meadows, lakes, and streams within a vast portion of the Cascade Range in southern Washington. Within days, scientists were on the scene and have remained, documenting the process of ecosystem reassembly. The eruption created exemplary opportunities to learn how plants and animals initially respond to large, intense disturbance and the longer term process of succession. Findings from this work have advanced understanding of disturbance ecology and shifted thinking on how to manage landscapes after disturbance. For example, biological legacies--remnant woody structure and surviving organisms--were found to strongly influence the plant and animal communities that develop after the disturbance. This discovery contributed to changes in forest harvest policies, leading to the practice of leaving some live and dead trees within harvest areas. Key ecological lessons from Mount St. Helens and the process of doing long-term research have also yielded information that scientists with the Pacific Northwest Research Station are now sharing with others around the world."--Summary.