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[FuzzyFace]

It's been 32 years since Mt. St. Helens erupted up here in WA, causing all kinds of devastation and killing some people--I don't remember how many but it wasn't just a few.

It's come back in some ways to a remarkable degree. For the first few years after the explosion it was a barren wasteland but pretty soon vegetation start reappearing, and so did wildlife. A lake was formed and somehow fish got into it--it wasn't stocked. Speculation is that birds of prey may have dropped their catch somehow and that's how the fish got there.

There is one good and two spectacular places to view the crater from; I've been to all of them several times. Hubby and I will probably make our usual pilgramage there pretty soon; it's so fascinating to see how an eco system that all the scientists wrote off as dead for centuries has make such a fast comeback.