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A Mount St. Helens ecologist spent his life researching the volcano. Science is reaping the rewards.

Charlie Crisafulli's 1980 helicopter flight over the just-erupted crater of Mount St. Helens led him on a career-long journey of observing a landscape return to life, starting with the very first bacteria.

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