After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

In fact, according to a new report from the University of California, this particular gopher-volcano encounter proved to be ...

By 1983, the areas around Mount St. Helens chosen for the gopher experiment were heaps of "collapsing slabs of porous pumice.

Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...

A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St ...

Once the blistering blast of ash and debris cooled, scientists theorized that, by digging up beneficial bacteria and fungi, ...

A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had ...

So, why did it happen? Part of the credit goes to the gopher's diligent digging, which cycled fertile materials back toward the surface. But they also left things behind — from their droppings ...