Talk:Mount St. Helens

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Mount St. Halenas. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 7#Mount St. Halenas until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Mdewman6 (talk) 22:19, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Mount St Helens

How tall is Mount St. Helens? 2603:3010:1101:5E00:EDDE:46DB:4EAC:803A (talk) 14:12, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

clarity edit

> From December 7, 1989 to January 6, 1990, and from November 5, 1990 to February 14, 1991, the mountain erupted, sometimes huge clouds of ash

the last bit of that sentence, "sometimes huge clouds of ash", is unclear and seems to me in violation of some grammatical rule or something similar. 81.179.132.212 (talk) 12:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Category:Volcanoes of the United States

Mount St. Helens needs to be added to this category. 2600:6C8A:C840:10:80:8265:C7FA:6D06 (talk) 00:19, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Mt. St. Helen's

Interesting to see that Mt.St. Helen's has been active at one point through the years. Now in 2023 I am more interested than ever to see what it looks like today and find out if it is still rumbling. 2601:983:C100:9E90:ADAB:47A0:51FD:CBD5 (talk) 07:14, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect statement about activity

First sentence of the last paragraph of the first section states "After its 1980 eruption, the volcano experienced continuous volcanic activity until 2008."

Since the volcano was dormant from 1991-2004, roughly 13 years, or more than 1/3 of the time frame stated, that is a factually false statement, with no citation. Dmwilliams1979 (talk) 05:45, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

WP:BEBOLD and fix it. Add a citation. KelleyCook (talk) 15:27, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Pressure for next eruption

I took out the statement that the dome configuration will require more pressure to erupt than 1980. Although sourced, the author of that book is not a professional geologist and there's physical reasons to doubt what he says there:

• Bezymianny, the twin of this volcano, has not had any eruption of comparable explosivity during the cone rebuilding process, and the 2020 study does not predict the new cone will make future eruptions more explosive in nature or powerful;
• The confining pressure of the domes can't be anything compared to a whole mountaintop;
• There is less space for a cryptodome to form and accumulate pressure since the edifice volume is lower

Now if we find a better source, I wouldn't be opposed to re-adding it, but I just don't think this reflects the opinion of the majority of scientists studying this volcano. Jasper Deng (talk) 03:57, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Nicknames

Nicknames for the mountain that certain people call it do not need to be in the lead in paragraph. That should be deeper into the article. That is not important enough to warrant inclusion in the lead-in. Denali yes, Mt. St. Helens no. This is a slippery slope (no pun intended) when you start recognizing all of the different names that different groups put on all sorts of different things. Inclusion is fine, but not at the top of the page. 2600:8804:400:DCE0:0:0:0:4190 (talk) 17:12, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Indigenous names are important to note, especially in a place like this. Geolojoey (talk) 04:28, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Time to remove semi-protected status?

Hey everyone!

From what I can figure, the semi-protected limitations of the Mount St. Helens article was added due to excessive vandalism...on October 10, 2010! See diff here: 388301543.

I've never requested such a status be removed before so maybe this takes place at a Wiki-board/notification page instead, but...it's been 15 years. Seems like the article has been stable for quite some time.

Thanks!

OlympiaBuebird (talk) 16:24, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

@OlympiaBuebird: It would probably be faster if you post a request here. - FlightTime (open channel) 16:41, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @FlightTime, just sent it in. Appreciate the link...and yet one more thing out of thousands to know about Wikipedia...will it ever end?!

OlympiaBuebird (talk) 16:56, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

desirable reference?

In the Ecology section, I corrected one of the altitudes. The original reference is correct, but it's not freely available online, and won't be since it's Springer-Verlag. I found the relevant chapter at https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/pubs/pdf/pub3871.pdf and based my correction on that. Is it worth adding this as an additional reference? If it is, I'm not sure how best to do it since most of the info is the same. Also, I don't know whether Oregon State is republishing the book with or without permission. Paleolith (talk) 04:02, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

NISAR Views Mount St. Helens

Here is the JPL's Photojournal of NISAR Views Mount St. Helens. Rjluna2 (talk) 16:15, 1 April 2026 (UTC)