W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...

The U.S. Forest Service wants to keep history from repeating itself at Mount St. Helens. Work is about to begin to reduce the risk of flooding at the largest lake created by the volcano’s 1980 ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. (KATU) — To say the rescue teams in Skamania County have been busy this year is putting it mildly.

The underwater forest was a mystery to him until the ... research area taking up roughly a quarter of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which Congress set aside in ...

"The Mount St. Helens Visitor Center was completed in 1986 by the U.S. Forest Service. The facility was turned over to Washington State Parks in 2007. The exhibits we have in the facility are ...

The 2022 Kalama Fire burned 500 acres on the south side of Mount St. Helens in 2022. (Contributed by Gifford Pinchot National Forest) The U.S. Forest Service is planning to replant 134 acres of ...

With the decreased number of staff, the forest service just can't meet the demand that will be put on it by public visitation,' Mount St. Helens Institute Co-Executive Director Alyssa Hoyt said.

Amanda Brewer was fired in February from her job at the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Headquarters in Amboy. The monument is part of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which ...

Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of sediment still pour into the Cowlitz River each year.

The U.S. Forest Service is reviewing ways to prevent Spirit Lake from overflowing, including updating or replacing an aging tunnel built to drain the lake after the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

The Columbia Theatre in Longview, Washington, is celebrating its centennial. Theater officials say the 1980 eruption of Mount ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of sediment still pour into the ...