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The 1980 eruption wiped out the forest around the river, leaving an unrestrained river that destroys habitat. But ...
It's been almost 30 years since Mount St. Helens erupted ... biologists say that dam has created a Death Valley along the Toutle River. It's not easy saving a species from extinction.
LONGVIEW — For the first time, federal engineers are acknowledging that they will need to battle Mount St. Helens sediment ... salmon stocks on the Toutle River. The agency also has funding ...
May 20, 1980: The eruption of Mount St. Helens knocked down trees along a logging road near the south fork of the Toutle River in Washington state. 1980: A worker at an auto dealership in Moscow ...
and other interested and affected parties in making decisions about the Spirit Lake and Toutle River system, near Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. The process should include broader ...
The May 14 debris slide blocking access to Mount St. Helens damaged the road to popular ... the economic fallout of the landslide for his Toutle business than he did during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Why it matters: For centuries, people lived in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, but the threat of ... eruption is still being dredged from the Toutle River and from the Columbia River downstream.
One line of plots studied during a July 2022 botanical research expedition requires fording the North Fork Toutle River to access. Mount St. Helens in background. K.A. Erickson Special to The News ...
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.
located just north of Mount St. Helens. In 1985, the Army Corps of Engineers built a 1.6-mile-long tunnel through a nearby ridge to let the lake drain into the North Fork Toutle River. The ridge ...