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  2. Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ... its head of tide. The Columbia River multiannual average discharge: ... The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens caused mudslides ...

  3. Mount St. Helens - Wikipedia

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    Hike via south slope of volcano (closest area near eruption site) Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, [1] in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It lies 52 miles (83 km) northeast ...

  4. Sauvie Island - Wikipedia

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    Sauvie Island, in the U.S. state of Oregon, originally Wapato Island or Wappatoo Island, is the largest island along the Columbia River, at 26,000 acres (10,522 ha), and one of the largest river islands in the United States. It lies approximately ten miles northwest of downtown Portland, between the Columbia River to the east, the Multnomah ...

  5. Columbia River Estuary - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia River Estuary is situated on the Oregon – Washington border and the Pacific Coast of the United States. It was traditionally inhabited by the Chinook Native Americans and discovered by settlers in 1788. The Estuary plays host to a plethora of species of marine and terrestrial flora and fauna, and multiple conservation ...

  6. Cowlitz River - Wikipedia

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    Cowlitz River. /  46.65444°N 121.62028°W  / 46.65444; -121.62028. /  46.09778°N 122.91111°W  / 46.09778; -122.91111. The Cowlitz River is a river in the state of Washington in the United States, a tributary of the Columbia River. Its tributaries drain a large region including the slopes of Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and Mount ...

  7. Cascade Range - Wikipedia

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    In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through the Cascades on the Columbia River, which for many years was the only practical way to pass that part of the range. They were the first non-indigenous people to see Mount Adams, but they thought it was Mount St. Helens. When they later saw Mount St. Helens they thought it was Mount Rainier.

  8. Lewis River (Washington) - Wikipedia

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    The Lewis River is a tributary of the Columbia River, about 95 miles (153 km) long, in southwestern Washington in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range north of the Columbia River. The drainage basin of the Lewis River covers about 1,046 square miles (2,709 km 2 ). [4] The river's mean annual discharge is about 6,125 cubic feet ...

  9. 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens - Wikipedia

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    Map of eruption deposits. On March 27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. A series of phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major explosive eruption took place on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am. The eruption, which had a volcanic ...