Beginning next year, Gifford Pinchot National Forest will begin offering free personal-use firewood permits to the public that will be available at district offices in-person, over the phone, at local vendor locations and by mail.
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Where debris flowed from a 1980 eruption, plants and animals have slowly returned. But a road may disrupt those ecological communities. CARRI J. LEROY
Planned service road near Mount St. Helens threatens prized research area
Apr. 21, 2021 , 1:00 PM
When Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted on 18 May 1980, the initial explosion blew sideways, creating a nearly 600-square-kilometer blast zone and what has become a prized ecological research area. Dozens of groups have tracked life’s reemergence there, one lupine and ladybug at a time. Now, many of those research projects may be endangered. Last month, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), which manages the land, issued a decision to build a road stretching through the heart of the research area to the banks of Spirit Lake, 5 kilometers northeast of the crater. The agency says the road will service a tunnel that drains the lake to prevent a catastrophic flood, a threat to tens of thousands of people in the valley