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After Mt St Helens erupted all the scientist said it would take 100s of years to recover, they were wrong. Imagine THAT! :lol:
"When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, scientists tried to apply longstanding theories to predict the recovery of plants and animals. It turned out that nature was a difficult teacher.
``We were wrong at least 50 percent of the time.'' - Larry Bliss, professor of botany, University of Washington.
``Biologists were totally blind-sided by the eruption on May 18, 1980.'' - Jerry Franklin, professor of forest resources, University of Washington.
``Conventional wisdom said that fish shouldn't have survived (in streams choked with silt and heated by the volcano). But they did.'' - Jim Sedell, Forest Service researcher, Corvallis, Ore.
``To our amazement (two contradictory theorized processes of how recovery should take place) occurred within a meter of each other.'' - Jim McMahon, Utah State University biologist.
The comments came during a recent visit to the devastated area arranged by Reps. Jolene Unsoeld and Sid Morrison, whose congressional districts share the volcano. The tour was designed to draw attention to the need for continued study of the recovery, which, in many ways, has astounded scientists."
Living | Mount St. Helens Aftermath: Mother Nature Has Fooled US | Seattle Times Newspaper
"When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, scientists tried to apply longstanding theories to predict the recovery of plants and animals. It turned out that nature was a difficult teacher.
``We were wrong at least 50 percent of the time.'' - Larry Bliss, professor of botany, University of Washington.
``Biologists were totally blind-sided by the eruption on May 18, 1980.'' - Jerry Franklin, professor of forest resources, University of Washington.
``Conventional wisdom said that fish shouldn't have survived (in streams choked with silt and heated by the volcano). But they did.'' - Jim Sedell, Forest Service researcher, Corvallis, Ore.
``To our amazement (two contradictory theorized processes of how recovery should take place) occurred within a meter of each other.'' - Jim McMahon, Utah State University biologist.
The comments came during a recent visit to the devastated area arranged by Reps. Jolene Unsoeld and Sid Morrison, whose congressional districts share the volcano. The tour was designed to draw attention to the need for continued study of the recovery, which, in many ways, has astounded scientists."
Living | Mount St. Helens Aftermath: Mother Nature Has Fooled US | Seattle Times Newspaper