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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
More and more, sending your kids off to college is like paying big bucks to take them to an outrageously overpriced restaurant despite knowing that youâre going to get food poisoning, and despite knowing that the waitstaff are going to try to make your kids hate you.
Why on earth do we keep doing it? Well, because our kids need to show the receipt for that terrible dining experience to prospective employers if they want to land a job. Itâs madness.
Things arenât getting any better at the academy, either. In fact, theyâre getting worse. Eric Kaufmann ought to know. Heâs a professor of politics at the University of Londonâs Birkbeck College and a board member at an organization called the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.