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Two images of a seal figurine purchsed by John Budke made out of the ash from the Mt St Helens 1980 eruption.

Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: An Iron Worker Union (IWU) Local #63 pin honoring work on the Chicago "bean" [Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" sculpture] in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Many members…

Inside a rescue shelter

Before the eruption

A picture of Mt St Helens before the 1980 eruption

After the eruption, stripped trees and green trees

Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: Richard Rich Rowe, business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63 and unofficial iron worker historian, at IWU Local #63 Headquarters in Broadview, IL.

Washington Governor Dixi Lee Ray invited President Jimmy Carter, US Senator Warren Magnuson and others to view the destruction.

Flowers growing after the eruption.

A new fern growing out of the ash