Stephanie Massart, left, regent of the Karneetsa Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with biologist and author Eric Wagner in the lobby of the Moses Lake Civic Center. On Saturday, Wagner spoke about the surprising nature of the environmental recovery around Mt. St. Helens following the volcano’s eruption on May 18, 1980.
May 2, 2023
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Eruption review
Looking back at Mt. St. Helens' eruption 43 years later.
MOSES LAKE — It didn’t take long after the eruption on Mt. St. Heles on May 18, 1980, for life to begin to re-emerge on the sides of the mountain, according to biologist and author Eric Wagner. Wagner, speaking in the Moses Lake Civic Center Auditorium on Saturday about the recovery of the area around Mt. St. Helens in the four decades of the volcano’s last major eruption, told the story of plant biologist Jerry Franklin, aquatic biologist Jim Sidell and geologist Fred Swanson and the helicopter trip they took to Ryan Lake, about eight miles northeast of Mt. St. Helens, in June 1980, about two weeks after the eruption...