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    Under a cloudy sky, a rough landscape, lightly dusted with snow, is shown. The tips of the rough landscape are brown, the snow collects in the folds below, which is Mount St. Helen's pumice plain. In the background, Mount St. Helen looms, showing the collapsed top and side of the mountain from the 1980 explosion.

    Erosion moves mountains: USACE’s relentless reply to the Mount St. Helens eruption

    After more than a century of quiet brooding, Mount St. Helens, known to the Cowlitz as Lawetlat’la, or The Smoking Mountain, began to announce its impending wrath. In the end, the mountain’s eruption would prove to not be singular event, but the beginning of a decades-long geological and engineering challenge.
  • A woman poses in a grassy field with two large dogs. A snowy mountain is in the background.

    Fate and flows: Oregon native keeps water moving through state

    PORTLAND, Ore. -- Salina Hart dreams about water. It makes sense: she grew up on the water, and often went tubing down the local Clackamas River, the North Santiam and the Long Tom. Even after the massive local floods of 1996 swelled the river, inundated her home and took out most of her neighborhood, she still loved water.