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After years of erupting, the forest has lost wildlife, and some of the trees buy the mountain.
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The forest has started to gain back wildlife and its forest back that was burnt, and the volcano enters a 123 year quiet phase.
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Before the eruption in 1980, Mount St. Helens was a stable community.
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In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, causing its stable community to crash. In this case, the organisms were driven away by the eruption, which is the beginning stage of of succession.
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Mount St.Helens was is the recovery stage of the eruption, entering step 1 of secondary succession, growing weeds and grass.
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7 years later, the mountain was back open, because finally all the debris and ash were cleared, and the mountains was growing tiny plants.
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The once burnt ruins have grown still has little amounts of grass and shrubs, still in phase 1 of secondary succession
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After several years, the once scorched place started to grow bigger trees and some shrubs, the second step in secondary succession
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After nearly 30 years, Mount Saint Helens has wildlife and giant trees growing, soon to be becoming a climax community.
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Almost 40 years later, the forest has been changing and evolving lots, it now has wildlife and is growing trees, still in step 3 of secondary succession
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