Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us, ... And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet.

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The biggest single lesson was an early one, and that was that what appeared to be a lifeless landscape was anything but.

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There's absolutely no question that Mount St. Helens will erupt again, ... The question is when.

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