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Ventures in the Sun: A Photo Essay
Yeah, I’ve been gone for a good bit. I can explain. Politics, the pandemic, and health crises sapped my will to write. Then the sun came out. (And there were so. many. volcanoes.)…
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Four Must-Read Mount St. Helens Books
It seems like entire libraries have been written about the Mount St. Helens eruption. Here are four books well worth reading. Let me just start by stating the obvious: this is far from…
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Forty Years Ago Today: The Cataclysm
“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” – Last words of USGS volcanologist David Alexander Johnston, 8:32 am, May 18th, 1980 Dave Johnston would be 70 today, if he hadn’t been up at Coldwater II,…