pickThis was engrossing when Olson focused on Mount St. Helens to include the events leading up to its eruption, the actual eruption, and the damage and aftermath. I learned details I had never known. The book shows how the scientific community and government did poorly in preparing for a worst case scenario and informing and protecting the public.
JoeMo Olson went down several rabbit holes to include rather lengthy histories of the timber industry, the Weyerhaeuser company and family who had logging rights for the mountain, and Gifford Pinchot and early conservationism. These subjects distracted from the story about the mountain and its eruption and could have been summarized better or even left out. (edited) 4d
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SamAnne He must of told the story of President Carter flying to look at the devastation and thinking he had reached the blast zone, when he was actually flying over Weyerhaeuser‘s blast zone of clearcut logging. I still laugh/cry at that. Weyco,did a number on my home watershed in Oregon. Made me a forest conservationist. 3d
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