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    • Buried Alive

    In the Cascade mountains, subalpine forest plants are adapted to heavy snowpacks. However, in the spring of 1980, they faced another complication: a heavy blanket of wet tephra (volcanic ash).

    Don Zobel, Plant Ecologist

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