{"id":264272,"date":"2024-11-11T21:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T21:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/how-a-single-gopher-restored-a-landscape-devastated-by-a-volcano\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:32","slug":"how-a-single-gopher-restored-a-landscape-devastated-by-a-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/how-a-single-gopher-restored-a-landscape-devastated-by-a-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) brings unexpected ecosystem benefits<\/p>\n

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Two years after Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, a team of researchers helicoptered in a gopher to the ash-covered landscape. Decades later, the activity of that single gopher burrowing for a single day may have helped the decimated ecosystem regrow by boosting the diversity of soil fungi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something to be said about learning lessons from the gophers,\u201d says Mia Maltz<\/a> at the University of Connecticut, who has used the eruption<\/a> to understand how forests might recover from other stresses \u2013 including wildfires and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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