A Southwest Washington salmon habitat restoration nonprofit broke ground Thursday on a large restoration project on and around the South Fork Toutle River. The two-year…
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‘A unique and powerful story’: Despite cuts, Mount St. Helens Institute committed to providing educational resources to visitors
By The Citizen on May 17, 2025
Since 1996, scientists, researchers, staff and volunteers at Mount St. Helens Institute have been working to educate students and visitors about the mountain’s unique volcanic…
Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver observatory will rock you
By The Citizen on May 8, 2025
You know that very special rock you couldn’t resist picking up and taking home? The one with the uncanny shape, the surprising colors, the strange…
After mass firings, rehired Gifford Pinchot National Forest workers return to work
By The Citizen on March 24, 2025
Staff fired from the Gifford Pinchot National Forest returned to work Monday, following weeks of uncertainty after the federal government’s mass firings earlier this year.…
45 years after blast, Mount St. Helens’ sediment still causing costly problems
By The Citizen on March 19, 2025
Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of…
Rescuers save Ridgefield hiker from potentially fatal conditions at Coldwater Lake
By The Citizen on February 12, 2025
Rescuers saved a 67-year-old Ridgefield man from potentially fatal conditions Friday at Coldwater Lake, 7 miles northwest of Mount St. Helens. Read more… Source: The…
Johnston Ridge Observatory and Spirit Lake Highway are slated to reopen in spring of 2027
By The Citizen on August 7, 2024
Mount St. Helens’ Johnston Ridge Observatory is slated to reopen to the public in spring 2027, according to a recently re-released timeline detailing the phases…
Summer on the Mountain: Mount St. Helens pinnacle of recreation, science and learning
By The Citizen on May 18, 2024
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot…
Let’s get ready to rumble: Mount St. Helens Institute to expand outdoor education at Coldwater
By The Citizen on June 17, 2023
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — Amid children’s excited chatter and giggles, the first signs of a volcanic eruption — harmonic tremors — spread…
Everybody Has a Story: Truckers lead way after ’80 blast
By The Citizen on May 24, 2020
It was May 18, 1980, and I received a phone call from my husband, Cecil, a merchant mariner captain who had been at sea for…