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Pine Creek station’s 30 years celebrated
PINE CREEK STATION — More than 60 current and former Pine Creek employees attended the 30th anniversary of the Pine Creek station on Saturday. In the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument area,...
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Keeping an eye on volcanoes
A dozen scientists from around the world are in Vancouver to learn about monitoring hazardous volcanoes. On Wednesday, that actually meant learning about batteries and solar panels. After all, you...
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Committee to hear Spirit Lake strategy
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will discuss the long-term management of the Spirit Lake and Toutle River system during a two-day committee meeting next week at the Red Lion...
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Mount St. Helens shakes 120 times within a week
In less than a week, four swarms of more than 120 earthquakes shook Mount St. Helens in late November. Although they were too small to be felt even by someone standing directly over their epicenters,...
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‘Stethoscope’ gets ‘to the heart’ of Mount St. Helens
Vancouver-based scientists recently made a house call to the crater of Mount St. Helens. They needed to check the volcano’s heartbeat. That meant digging down a dozen feet or more into the snow to...
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Mount St. Helens climbing permits sell out through summer
Now that the sun has returned to Southwest Washington, locals can shift their attention from staying dry to getting out to the mountains. But anyone looking to climb Mount St. Helens is going to have...
View ArticleVolunteers are needed to tend volcano trails
Last winter took a toll on trails around Southwest Washington, and the Mount St. Helens Institute and the Washington Trails Association are asking for volunteers to help clean them up at the volcano....
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OMSI exhibit shows volcanic destruction of Pompeii 2,000 years ago
PORTLAND — The body casts of people who were killed 1,938 years ago testify to the deadly history of volcanoes. Those human forms represent the final moments of six unfortunate residents of Pompeii who...
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1,100 scientists descend on Mount St. Helens for ‘field trip’
LONGVIEW — Normally, when more than a thousand scientists flock to a volcano, something horrible has just happened. But the hordes of researchers who swarmed to Mount St. Helens on Wednesday were just...
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Exploratory mining permit for near Mount St. Helens advances
Exploratory mining near Mount St. Helens is now one step closer to happening. The U.S. Forest Service found no reason to object to an application by Ascot Resources Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C., to prospect...
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Mount St. Helens guru retires
LONGVIEW — Peter Frenzen has worked at Mount St. Helens for 35 years, yet he still lights up talking about the mountain. “I’ve been many places in the world, and maybe I’m biased, but maybe the coolest...
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Dark, dirty and deep underground adventures in Gifford Pinchot’s caves
Gifford Pinchot National Forest — At around 80 degrees, it’s fairly mild for a mid-August day, but I’m sweating as if it were 110, partially from the layers of winter clothes I’m wearing beneath my...
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Exploratory mining approved at area near Mount St. Helens
The U.S. Forest Service has given its consent to allow exploratory mining near Mount St. Helens. Ascot USA Inc. wants to explore for minerals in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest about 12 miles...
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Mount St. Helens Institute to resurrect climbing permit portal
The Mount St. Helens Institute is relaunching its climbing permit system nearly four weeks after rampant demand crippled this season’s first online sales event. Starting at 9 a.m. Monday, those hoping...
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Mining firm details plans for Mount St. Helens
LONGVIEW — Ascot USA Inc. updated some of its plans for minerals exploration north of Mount St. Helens on Thursday, about a week after it got U.S. Forest Service approval for the effort. According to...
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‘It’s a Blast’ part of Volcano Preparedness Month
An open house on May 12 at Vancouver’s U.S. Geological Survey center and the season opening of the observatory near the crater of Mount St. Helens on May 16 will be part of Volcano Preparedness Month...
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest plans to triage sites
Budget shortfalls are forcing Gifford Pinchot National Forest officials to triage its developed recreation sites — a process that could lead to some being abandoned. Through a process being called...
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‘We had our tent and sleeping bags out of the car’
Carolyn Driedger and Mindy Brugman drove up to the Mount St. Helens observation point on May 17, 1980, as David Johnston was taking over for geologist Harry Glicken. Before Glicken left, he had a...
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Fort Vancouver fireworks, family fun to fill up fourth
One of the biggest Fourth of July displays in the Pacific Northwest will bring lots of dazzle and sizzle to the skies above Fort Vancouver on Wednesday. “This will be one of the most vibrant fireworks...
View ArticlePortland man dies while hiking on Mount St. Helens
A Portland man died Thursday while hiking on Mount St. Helens, according to the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office. Jason L. Douthit, 44, of Portland had been hiking in a group of three near the boulder...
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