#Gifford Pinchot

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Yesterday we visited Gray Towers in Milford, PA, the summer home of Gifford Pinchot, founder and first Chief of the US Forest Service. The house and garden are spectacular, like a fairytale castle with round turrets and wondrous nooks.

Virtual Tour https://greytowers.org/greytowers_vt/html5/greytowers.html

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An Altar, OOAK charm necklace.

Featuring: - Antique skeleton key - Antler points (ethically sourced) - rhodium plated fly charm - rhodium plated Midsommar pendant - Vintage crucifix & holy medal - Cut glass crystals Necklace Specs: - 19 inch stainless steel chain - Lobster clasp closure

SHOP.

[bettergeology]

Water tumbles down basalt in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

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Don't forget to look up.

Gifford Pinchot NF, Stl'pulmsh (Cowlitz) and Qwû’lh-hwai-pûm (Klickitat) territory

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“Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of mankind” Gifford Pinchot

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Mount Adams, Gifford Pinchot NF, Washington, USA

By Daniel Gomez

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Untitled by Tom Humphrey

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Mt. Rainier from Pacific Crest Trail Between White and Chinook Passes, Washington, 2004.

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Rainy Day on Cowlitz River - Near Packwood, WA

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Gifford Pinchot National Forest

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Stumbled upon a temple the other day

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Keeping an eye out

Mount St. Helens is the most active volcano in the Cascades. It's major eruption in 1980 has been succeeded by about 10 other smaller eruptions and maintains near-constant microseismicity. The first pictures show one of the close-in monitoring stations at Windy Ridge. The USGS Cascade Volcano Observatory maintains a number of large monitoring stations close to the mountain, near the vent, where they've been armored to protect from eruptive activity. These stations typically include a seismometer (seismogram here), a GPS station (the white dome), and other equipment like geophones or a webcam. Volcanoes never erupt spontaneously, they are always preceded by some kind of activity - usually small earthquakes - and let you know when they're ready to go. St. Helens hasn't done anything since about 2010, taking a well-deserved rest after the major lava dome growth in 2004-2008.

Around the mountain to the southeast, you can hike through the Plains of Abraham's pumice fields and past the slot-canyon head of Ape Canyon to the rim of the Muddy River, where another monitoring station reports seismicity and GPS data. The GPS stations observe the shape of the volcano over time. As gas, fluids, and magma move around inside the mountain, the surface deforms. Rapid or dramatic deformation is often indicative of impending eruption or other activity, and is one of the most important parameters in the volcanologists' arsenal.

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Angel Falls

Gifford Pinchot NF, Stl'pulmsh (Cowlitz) and Qwû’lh-hwai-pûm (Klickitat) territory