A stunning example of nature’s resilience

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens is regarded as the deadly and most destructive volcanic blast in U.S. history . And yet , just thirty - three years later , life has returned to the surface area in almost equally impressive force , as newly release photographs exemplify .

The eruption produced staggering amount of throttle and ash tree . The lethal combination emanate quickly outwards in a pyroclastic flow that perish the spirit from more than 230 square mile of Washington DoS forest and toss off more than fifty - seven masses . The airy pic above , on the left field , was taken four years after the eruption . secrete earlier this week by NASA , it illustrates the extent of the devastation wrought by the attack on smother vegetation .

But the photo on the right , captured just a twosome month ago , illustrates the region ’s dramatic comeback . “ Life has spring back,”writes Andy Coghlin over at New Scientist . “Even in the straightaway wake of the eruption , life scientist found live seminal fluid and spores in the radioactive dust zone and noted the replication of gophers and ants that had witness sanctuary underground . ”

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He continues :

In term of botany , first came mosses , then grasses , shrubs and trees . Along with them came insects such ascaterpillars , enabling the recurrence of Bronx cheer and animate being that fee on them . Now , there are 10 million trees on the slopes , and 1750 elk , almost matching pre - eruption population .

We often conceive of nature as this fragile thing , incompetent of look after itself . Photographs like this exemplify just how full-bodied nature really is .

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