After the Blast The Ecological Recovery of Mount St Helens 1st edition by Eric Wagner ISBN‎ 0295746939 ‎ 978-0295746937

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ISBN 10:‎ 0295746939
ISBN 13: ‎ 978-0295746937
Author: Eric Wagner

On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed.

Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain, but when forest scientist Jerry Franklin helicoptered into the blast area a couple of weeks after the eruption, he found small plants bursting through the ash and animals skittering over the ground. Stunned, he realized he and his colleagues had been thinking of the volcano in completely the wrong way. Rather than being a dead zone, the mountain was very much alive.

Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists ever since, and in After the Blast Eric Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals Franklin saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.

After the Blast The Ecological Recovery of Mount St Helens 1st Table of contents:

Part I: More than the Boom

1. Paper 1250

2. A Portal to Other Ways of Knowing

Part II: Natural Experiments

3. Biological Legacies

4. The Survivor-Hero

5. To Recover or Not to Recover

6. Lines of Succession

7. The Concrete Forest

Part III: Of Logs and Lakes

8. A Black Stew of Bacteria

9. The Tunnel

10. The Log Mat

11. Fish in a Fishless Lake

Part IV: Changes to the Land

12. Disturbed Ecologies

13. Fish in a Fishless River

14. The Elk in the Cardboard Box

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