Mount St. Helens: A look back

  • The Mount St. Helens eruption, which occurred 40 years ago this week, destroyed more than 100,000 acres of land. Photo by Marshall McClung/The Graham Star
    The Mount St. Helens eruption, which occurred 40 years ago this week, destroyed more than 100,000 acres of land. Photo by Marshall McClung/The Graham Star
In 1980, I had been employed with the U.S. Forest Service for 13 years and had already been on numerous large wildfires in the western United States. None of that prepared me for what was to come…

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