Portrait of Mount St. Helens : A changing Landscape

By Chuck Williams & Stuart Warren

View this beloved mountain through the eyes of nineteenth-century painters and pioneers as well as contemporary photographers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 79 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.23 x 11.01 x 8.54
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company; (August 1, 1997)
• ISBN: 1558683100

Publisher Comments

The most symmetrical mountain in North America, a powerful eruption, a barren moonscape, the regeneration of an ecosystem -- all are terms used to describe Mount St. Helens. With vivid photographs, this book illuminates the mountain's pristine pre-eruption beauty, the blast itself, the dramatically changed post-eruption landscape, and the astonishing recovery of the ecosystem surrounding it. In the years following the eruption of May 18, 1980, it has become clear that far from being the end of everything, as some had feared, the "big blow" marked a new beginning as Nature quietly works to rebuild itself. The renewal of life on the mountain has provided a field study not only for scientists but for millions of visitors who look with awe on the seemingly total devastation the eruption wrought, and see along with it the gradual return of plants and wildlife.