Cascadia and David McCloskey were featured in a New York Times article by William Yardley, “Dreams of a Unified Northwest Are Halted At the Border,” February 27, 2010, A8

see at:   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/world/americas/27cascadia.html

The Meaning of Mt. St. Helens’ (Loowit) Eruption:

Images of the Mountain before, during, and after, the May 18, 1980 eruption:

see the U.S.G.S., Cascades Volcano Observatory, esp.

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/MSH80/framework.html

Wikipedia, “1980 Eruption of Mt. St. Helens.”

“The Science Legacy of Mt. St. Helens,” list, May 4, 2010,

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/30Years/science_legacy_of_msh.doc

Scholarly Book:

Virginia H. Dale, Frederick J. Swanson, & Charles M. Crisafulli, eds. 2005,  Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Springer-Science.

Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, & Frederick J. Swanson, eds., 2008, In the Blast Zone, Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.

Poetry:

Ursula K. LeGuin,  In the Red Zone (w/ Henk Pander), 1983.

Lord John

Gary Snyder, danger on peaks, 2004.  Shoemaker & Hoard

For a fascinating general overview, based on a synthesis of specialized studies,

see David Alt & Donald Hyndman, 1995

Northwest Exposures: A Geologic Story of the Northwest. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing (publishers of the invaluable “Roadside Geology” series).

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