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Lassen Volcanic National Park
To visit Lassen Volcanic National Park is to witness a brief moment in the ancient battle between the earth shaping forces of creation and destruction in Northern California. Nestled within Lassen’s peaceful forests and untouched wilderness, hissing fumaroles and boiling mud pots still shape and change the land, evidence of Lassen’s long fiery and active past.
On May 22, 1915, an explosive eruption at Lassen Peak, the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range, devastated nearby areas and rained volcanic ash as far away as 200 miles to the east. This explosion was the most powerful in a 1914-17 series of eruptions that were the last to occur in the Cascades before the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Lassen Peak is the largest of a group of more than 30 volcanic domes erupted over the past 300,000 years in Lassen Volcanic National Park.
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Traveling Junior Ranger
Barrett Young, of rural Paola, Kansas, recently completed a 66 day, 11,000 mile tour of the Northwest, through parts of Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska with his family. Barrett's trip included visiting 36 National Parks with the purpose …