Adam Sowards

Adam M. Sowards is a historian and writer based in western Washington. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest and Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. He is currently writing a history of the national park system.

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Mount St. Helens erupting.

The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption wrecked landscapes and human life, but left many ecological lessons in its wake.