The 1980 eruption wiped out the forest around the river, leaving an unrestrained river that destroys habitat. But ...

ST HELENS, Wash — Engineers who spent the days and years following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens working ... built at the north fork of the Toutle River. ”Things start coming back ...

After more than two months of rumbling, Washington state's Mount St. Helens erupted ... and 15 miles of railway. River valleys were smothered and the path of the Toutle River was altered.

WASHINGTON STATE – On this 45th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens ... and kept working." The Toutle River flooded old SR 99 and the I-5 bridges, and the St. Helens bridge on SR 504 was buried.

Since March 20 that year, Mount St. Helens, nicknamed the “Mount Fuji ... The eruption also dumped tons of snowmelt and debris into the Toutle River, sending a cascade of logs and mud down ...

That's the day that Mount St. Helens erupted, flattening miles of ... "This was another logger that was found in the middle of the Toutle River, on a log in the middle of the mud flow, and he ...

His lede read, "President Carter flew over the volcano ravaged Toutle River Valley in southwestern Washington today, then described the impact of the eruption of Mount St. Helens as 'unbelievable.'" ...

Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of sediment still pour into the Cowlitz River each year.