A few years ago we drove up to see, for the first time, the damage done by the Mount St. Helens eruption/blast in 1980.The area was totally devastated and a person has to see it with his own eyes to begin to fathom the damage that was done.
In the distance below is the Toutle River, and it is that river that rampaged down it's bed, destroying everything in it's path.
The sculpture of the Tree Planter, done by Georgia Gerber of Clinton, Washington is in recognition of those involved with the salvage and restoration of the Weyerhaeuser lands from 1981 to 1987. Over 18 million seedlings were planted on 45,500 acres of company land, located in the blast area.
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