No national park for Mount St. Helens, yet
Jörg Daniel Hissen first glimpsed the devastated blast zone of Mount St. Helens as a German exchange student at Portland’s Lincoln High School in 1982.
The accomplished documentary filmmaker returned to the Northwest recently with a 52-minute film chronicling the ecological recovery of an area stripped nearly bare by the mind-bending eruption of May 18, 1980.
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