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How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging
After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...
40 years ago gophers were dropped into a post-apocalyptic scene. They changed everything
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, covering 22,000 square miles with 540 million tons of ...
The 24-Hour Experiment That Brought Life Back to Mount St. Helens
Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...
The Day Gophers Revived Mount St. Helens: A 24-Hour Miracle
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...