After the blast: the ecological recovery of Mount St. Helens

Prologue: After --

More than the boom. Paper 1250 ; A portal to other ways of knowing --

Natural experiments. Biological legacies ; The survivor-hero ; To recover or not to recover ; Lines of succession ; The concrete forest --

Of logs and lakes. A black stew of bacteria ; The tunnel ; The log mat ; Fish in a fishless lake --

Changes to the land. Disturbed ecologies ; Fish in a fishless river ; The elk in the cardboard box --

Epilogue: Volcán Calbuco.