Some hope for a Mount St. Helens National Park, with congressional funding, lodging, and more money for more science. Funds are starting to flow, with more than $6 million in federal stimulus last ...

His words proved prophetic, as in 1982 President Ronald Reagan created the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, where people can see the mountain and how nature is healing from the damage ...

Mount St. Helens National Park offers easy hikes and a scenic drive to witness the iconic volcano. Meanwhile, Beacon Rock State Park and Steamboat Rock State Park provide breathtaking views along ...

Geologists found a deep-running network of magma channels in the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park.

east of Marble Mountain Sno-Park. (Allen Thomas/for The Columbian) COUGAR — The Gifford Pinchot National Forest has removed the slide on Road No. 83 on the south side of Mount St. Helens ...

while higher elevations in the South Washington Cascades — including Mount St. Helens — are expected to see up to 8 inches of snow through Thursday night. The Portland Office of the National ...

One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted ... another catastrophic eruption occur? National Corporate funding for NOVA is ...

On May 18th, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted killing 57 people and changing the way residents of the Northwest viewed the volcano in their midst. For the last 40 years, The Columbian has written ...

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... was a thousand times the size of the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, which killed 57 people in Washington.