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Gifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 1/14
Washington sno-park permits required Mount St. Helens — Three feet of snow at Cougar Sno-Park and 4 to 5 feet at Marble Mountain Sno-Park. Road No. 83 is plowed, but slick in places. The automated site...
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 1/21
Mount St. Helens — Twenty-four inches of snow at Cougar Sno-Park and 32 inches at Marble Mountain Sno-Park. Both parking lots on the south side of the mountain have lost snow in the past week due to...
View ArticleLegislation would alter fish, wildlife advisory group leadership
When the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife sets up a public work group on elk hoof rot or salmon fishing, someone who’s not a department employee should be in charge. At least that’s what Rep....
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Plan for exploratory drilling near Mount St. Helens revived
To the chagrin of environmental groups, a Canadian mining company has renewed its efforts to perform exploratory drilling in the Green River valley north of Mount St. Helens. The U.S. Forest Service...
View ArticleGifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 1/28
Mount St. Helens — Snow depths have melted to 12 inches at Cougar Sno-Park and 24 inches at Marble Mountain Sno-Park. The pavement is bare on road No. 83. June Lake, elevation 3,440 feet, still has 64...
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 2/4
Mount Adams — Pineside Sno-Park has about 2 feet of snow. The trails will be groomed on Friday afternoon. SnowKing Sno-Park has about 3 feet of snow. Trails will be groomed here on Friday. Atkisson and...
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Agencies reissuing environmental review of drilling project
The public will have another opportunity to comment on a proposed exploratory drilling permit near Mount St. Helens. The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service plan to re-release the...
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 3/3
Mount St. Helens — No snow at Cougar Sno-Park and 14 inches at Marble Mountain Sno-Park. Road No. 83 is clear. The automated site at June Lake, elevation 3,440, reports 77 inches, a gain of 2 inches in...
View ArticleGifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 3/12
Mount Adams — Eight inches at Pineside Sno-Park, 12 inches at SnowKing Sno-Park, and 18 inches at Atkisson and Flattop sno-parks. Ski trails at Pineside are not recommended by the Forest Service due to...
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 3/17
Mount Adams — Two feet of snow with 8 to 10 inches new snow at Atkinson Sno-Park. Two to three feet of snow at Flattop Sno-Park. The snowmobile routes out of Atkisson and Flattop were groomed on...
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Spirit Lake drainage tunnel reopens
Repairs to the Spirit Lake drainage tunnel are complete, and the conduit is lowering the lake after it rose about 13 feet during a two-month shutdown, federal officials said. "We're very happy that the...
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Sen. Cantwell urges Forest Service to say no to Mount St. Helens drilling
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is opposed to exploratory drilling near Mount St. Helens and she's urging the U.S. Forest Service to deny a request for such activity. On Monday, Cantwell, the...
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Campgrounds, trails available as snow recedes
CARSON — Six campgrounds are open in the southern Gifford Pinchot National Forest with five more opening on May 19, the U.S. Forest Service reports. Open now are Government Mineral Springs, Sunset,...
View ArticleWeed warriors needed at Mount St. Helens
Volunteers are needed by the U.S. Forest Service to help control noxious weeds near Coldwater Lake and Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center. Volunteers must attend a training session at the...
View ArticleNew research unveiled at eruption anniversary
Mount St. Helens — The 36th anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens will be remembered at the Johnston Ridge Observatory Theater with a presentation on the latest scientific research on...
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Hiking Hummocks’ chaotic landscape
It will never qualify as one of the classic trails of Mount St. Helens, at least not visually. Yet Hummocks No. 229 — with its chaotic landscape of dirt mounds and ponds — should be on local hikers’...
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Major Gifford Pinchot forest road to stay closed
RANDLE — Road No. 23, a major north-south route across the Gifford Pinchot National Forest connecting Trout Lake and the Cowlitz River valley, will not open in 2016. The Forest Service announced Friday...
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Tiny quakes notwithstanding, no Mount St. Helens eruption is expected soon
An ongoing swarm of earthquakes under Mount St. Helens doesn’t mean the volcano is likely to erupt soon, but scientists are studying the tiny quakes to see what they reveal about magma movement deep...
View ArticleSpirit Lake Highway set to reopen for season
The highway leading to the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument will reopen all the way to the end this weekend. Starting on Saturday, motorists on state Highway 504, also known as the Spirit...
View ArticleJohnston Ridge Observatory opens Saturday
Johnston Ridge Observatory at the end of state Highway 504 north of Mount St. Helens opens for the season on Saturday. A science and fundraising event entitled “It’s a Blast’’ is scheduled at Johnston...
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