{"id":474,"date":"2020-04-29T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/?p=474"},"modified":"2020-04-29T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T18:14:00","slug":"new-road-across-the-pumice-plain-at-mount-st-helens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/new-road-across-the-pumice-plain-at-mount-st-helens\/","title":{"rendered":"New Road Across the Pumice Plain at Mount St. Helens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption> The\u00a0Truman Trail\u00a0at Mount St. Helens\u00a0is\u00a0beautiful! Help stop the USFS from building a road here! Photo by Carri LeRoy. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the eruption of Mount St Helens, the landscape has turned into a living laboratory for ecological research. It&#8217;s the most studied volcano in the world. It allows scientists to track how ecosystems and species respond to major disturbances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13b-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13b-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13b-676x447.png 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13b.png 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption> USFS\u00a0already\u00a0built this\u00a0new\u00a0road\u00a0to access Spirit Lake\u00a0in 2018. This was supposed to be the alternative to the Pumice Plain road. Photos\u00a0by Carri LeRoy <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Despite MSH being protected for natural recovery and research, for the past three years the USFS has been trying to build a road across the face of Mount St Helens. The creation of this road would destroy the Truman Trail and alter the ecosystem completely. Learn more about the threatened Truman Trail here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mshinstitute.org\/about_us\/rumblings-newsletter\/romanos-rumblings-summer-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mshinstitute.org\/about_us\/rumblings-newsletter\/romanos-rumblings-summer-2018.html<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13a-220x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13a-220x300.png 220w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day13a.png 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption> The Truman Trail provides\u00a0excellent views\u00a0of\u00a0both\u00a0Spirit Lake\u00a0and the crater of Mount St Helens\u00a0from the Pumice Plain. Photos\u00a0by Carri LeRoy.\u00a0 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research on newly developed streams across the Pumice Plain studies would be destroyed. Our lab and many others have been able to fight this off the last two years. To help get our voices heard, we need to actively fight this planned action:  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/project\/?project=57259\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/project\/?project=57259<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about the project and read several scientists\u2019 objections to the new proposed road here:  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/tdn.com\/news\/local\/forest-service-confirms-proposal-for-spirit-lake-access-road\/article_bfa7f34f-4efc-5d80-9588-bda6549a75d7.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tdn.com\/news\/local\/forest-service-confirms-proposal-for-spirit-lake-access-road\/article_bfa7f34f-4efc-5d80-9588-bda6549a75d7.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the eruption of Mount St Helens, the landscape has turned into a living laboratory for ecological research. It&#8217;s the most studied volcano in the world. It allows scientists to track how ecosystems and species respond to major disturbances. \u00a0 Despite MSH being protected for natural recovery and research, for the past three years the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,4,9,8],"tags":[40,31,44,50,51,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}