Mt.+St.+Helens

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Mt. St. Helens
 * Where--- Mt. St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington. **


 * Type--- Mt. St. Helens is a active ** **stratovolcano. **


 * Elevation--- 8,365 ft, 2,550 m above sea level**


 * When was it found--- Native Americans knew that of Mt. St. Helens in prehistoric times. Although George Vancouver was the first to survey that area and also named the volcano it name, Mount St. Helens.**


 * Most important eruptions--- The most important were in one year. The Volcano Awakens, March 16, 1980. Cataclysmic Eruption, May 18, 1980.**


 * Positives**


 * 1. Rich volcanic soils form by alteration of volcanic products.**
 * 2. Geothermal power**
 * 3. Health spas and hot springs for health.**
 * 4. Hydroelectric power from rivers flowing off large volcanoes.**
 * Recreation: skiing, hiking, tourism, and learning about volcanoes first hand.**
 * 6. Source for precious gems.**
 * 7. Source for metals.**
 * 8. Earth and human history. Burial by volcanic ash of whatever is on the earth's surface.**
 * 9. Construction materials**
 * 10. drilling-mud for water, gas and oil wells.**


 * Negatives**


 * 1. Surrounding landscapes gets destroyed.**
 * 2. Many trees are all lost by being burnt.**
 * 3. People possibly will get killed or burned severely by the explosion or the lava.**
 * 4. Houses and other buildings will get destroyed.**


 * Articles + summaries**
 * 1
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18helens.html?_r=1**


 * The Washington State DNR, Pope Resources and Columbia Land Trust came together and announced the purchase of a conservation easement from Pope Resources on nearly 6,900 acres of forestland on the southern parts of Mount St. Helens. The easement protects the property from turning into non-forest uses, such as building houses.**


 * The conservation easement was purchased by DNR with funds from the federal Forest Legacy Program. The easement is on land that surrounds Swift Reservoir in Skamania County, and is right next to state trust land managed by the DNR. The $2.4 million purchase will restrict future development on the private property while continuing the growth and harvest of timber.**


 * Skamania County is a rural county in southwest Washington with a population of just over 10,000. Most of its land is in public ownership. The Pope forestland is the largest private ownership in the county.**


 * 2
 * http://kpbj.com/business_weekly/2011-01-03/mount_st_helens_forest_conservation_easement_purchased**


 * When Mount St. Helens erupted nearly 30 years ago, it flattened more than 150 miles of forest, spewed millions of tons of mud and debris, filled the sky with ash and left at least 57 people dead. It has long been “one of the most fundamental questions in ecology,” said Charles M. Crisafulli, an ecologist at the Pacific Northwest Research Station, an agency of the United States Forest Service, which manages the mountain. And if, as seems likely, a warming world brings more storms, fires, droughts and floods, the research on the mountain will only grow in importance.**


 * “Mount St. Helens allows us to evaluate things we could not evaluate anywhere else,” But now the work is caught up in a debate over management of the mountain, designated after the eruption as the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Some say the 110,000-acre monument should be a national park.**


 * Over the years, so many researchers have spent so much time on the mountain that some call it the most-studied landscape on earth. But if much has been learned there, much remains unknown, and the process is playing out slowly, Mr. Crisafulli and Mr. Frenzen said one day recently as they hiked into the zone. A few miles away, in land managed by Weyerhaeuser, a timber producer, thick stands of trees laboriously planted by hand immediately after the eruption rise 70 feet tall.**


 * Journal**


 * Step- 1,Get supplies/ingredients.**


 * Step- 2, Hot glue pop bottle to cardboard.**


 * Step- 3, Hot glue strips of cardboard from the base to the top of the bottle. (support beams for the clay)**


 * Step- 4, Mold clay into place around the "support beams".**


 * Step- 5, Let the clay dry.**


 * Step- 6, Measure out ingredients.**


 * Step- 7, Put all ingredients into volcano. (Leave baking soda out until ready to explode your volcano)**


 * Step- 8, Put the baking soda in!!**