Gifford Pinchot National Forest

	USDA Forest Service Gifford Pinchot National Forest Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
For Immediate Release: May 09, 2005
Contact: Tom Knappenber (360) 891-5005 or Roger Peterson (360) 891-5007

Mount St. Helens Web Site Features Photographs of 25 Years of Change

CD Containing High-Resolution Files Available to Media Represenatives

Vancouver, WA -- Monument staff recently re-photographed key long-term research plots and camera points to provide updated documentation of a quarter century of change around Mount St. Helens. The best of these photographs are now featured in a new section of the Monument’s web site. The site also features a handful of locations that offer a rare glimpse of the same point before and after the 1980 eruption and how those points have changed through time over the past 25 years.

To view these images in a medium resolution format visit:

25 Years of Change (Repeat Photographs with Captions)
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/digital-gallery/25yearsofRecoveryandPostEruptionPlantRecovery.html

Life Returns FAQs: Impacts of the 1980 eruption and changes over the past 25 years are featured in a question and answer format: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/research/faq.html

High resolution files of selected photos are also available on CD for the cost of duplication:  **Please note**: Some of the raw, high-resolution scans have dust and other minor defects that were removed from the medium resolution files prior to posting on the web. Some “cleaning” of the raw scans is needed prior to publication.

To order the CD contact:

FedEx Kinko’s, 303 E 15th Street, Vancouver, Wash., (360) 694-8584 FAX: (360) 694-8843 ($11.99 + tax and shipping).

FedEx Kinko's hours are Monday to Friday 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. (PDT) and
Vancouver, WA 98663-3403 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (PDT) on Saturday and Sunday.

Request a duplicate of the ‘U.S. Forest Service CD’ that is being held in the ‘hold sale bin’. Refer to ‘hold sale #120656’. If they have trouble locating the transaction record, it is also referenced under the phone number (360) 449-7835.

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US Forest Service
Gifford Pinchot National Forest - Vancouver, WA
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument - Amboy, WA
Last Modified: Monday, 09 May 2005 at 18:44:43 EDT