Letters

Mt. St. Helens

Don Brunell’s column of 16 July prompted an online search of “Mt. St. Helens recovery” because of his claim: “Nowhere is the contrast between managed forests and barren forest land clearer than on Mount St. Helens.”

That’s not what I found.

Five years ago Scientific American (May 19, 2010) pointed out how well the unmanaged land has recovered:

“…the devastating losses had made room for remarkable gains – in terms of both ecosystem productivity and scientific progress.

“Plants and animals that never stood a chance under heavy canopies of trees, or in the presence of predominating...