Synopsis

For a quarter of a century, biologist Charlie Crisafulli has chronicled the remarkable resurgence of flora and fauna on Mount St. Helens following the catastrophic eruption of 1980. That year, the volcano's explosion buried everything within the blast zone under three hundred feet of avalanche debris, then entombed it in steaming mud and, ultimately, a superheated layer of rock erupted from the earth’s depths. For twenty-seven years, Crisafulli has remained at the mountain, documenting the dram