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After the blast
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Eric Wagner is a staff writer with the Puget Sound Institute at University of Washington, Tacoma. He is the author of After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens (Washington, 2020) and Penguins in the Desert (Oregon State, 2018). He also wrote the text for Once and Future River: Reclaiming the Duwamish (Washington, 2016).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780295746937
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press, (20 April 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 264
- Weight
- 522 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 25 mm
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