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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Mount St. Helens Monument Washington state
scientist leaves behind legacy youth pot use
The public
face of the
monument
By JACKSON HOGAN
The Daily News
LONGVIEW, Wash. —
Peter Frenzen has worked at
Mount St. Helens for 35 years,
yet he still lights up talking
about the mountain.
“I’ve been many places
in the world, and maybe I’m
biased, but maybe the cool-
est places I’ve ever been, any-
where, are around Mount St.
Helens,” he said. “It never
ceases to amaze me. I pinch
myself practically every time
I’m out there.”
Frenzen, 60, who’s served
as the staff scientist at the
Mount St. Helens National Vol-
canic Monument since its cre-
ation in 1982, is retiring at the
end of September.
For decades, he’s been the
public face of the 110,000-
acre area, helping to coordinate
research, document it for future
generations, advocating for its
protection and conveying its
findings to the public. It’s a job
that left him no real time for
any research of his own.
“I liked doing research
when I was doing it, but I per-
sonally find the promoting of
the understanding of what peo-
ple are learning to be more sat-
isfying to me,” he said. “The
impact of having people under-
stand the world that we live
in is not a tranquil place (is
crucial).”
He has also appeared in
many documentaries about
Mount St. Helens, speaking
about the complex but amaz-
ing evolution of natural and
geological processes. Today,
he’s a bit wistful when he
watches some of those older
productions.
“It’s actually kind of discon-
certing to watch yourself age,”
Frenzen said, laughing. “Peo-
ple will (watch these old doc-
umentaries) and say, ‘You were
so young!’”
Escaped to the
Northwest
Frenzen, a Midwest native,
said he “escaped” to the North-
west to study ecology at the
University of Washington.
About the time he began grad-
uate studies at Oregon State
University, Mount St. Hel-
ens erupted and he was able
to study the after effects with
some of the world’s most pres-
tigious researchers.
“This was a once-in-a-
lifetime experience,” he said
about analyzing the vol-
cano post-eruption in 1980. “I
was just lucky enough to be
included.”
Jerry Franklin, Frenzen’s
professor and mentor at Ore-
gon State, said he knew right
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Visitors peer out of display windows at the volcano at the
Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mount St. Helens National
Volcanic Monument near Toutle, Wash.
away his young protege scien-
tist would excel in the natural
science world.
“He was always a very
enthusiastic individual, and
upbeat,” said Franklin, now a
professor in ecosystem analy-
sis at the University of Wash-
ington. “He brought just a tre-
mendous amount of energy and
enthusiasm to his research.”
When President Ronald
Reagan and Congress created
the monument in 1982, Fren-
zen was immediately hired as
a staff scientist, a position he
held for 35 years. One of his
most important messages from
that experience? That it’s a big
misconception that the volca-
no’s eruption on May 18, 1980,
was a freak event.
“One of the things that
Mount St. Helens teaches you
is, ‘Hey, (Earth) is changing
and it’s going to change,” Fren-
zen said. “We have to be aware
of what the Earth is capable
of, since we’re much better
off working with it than trying
to push that big rock up a hill,
since it’s more powerful than
we are and we live at its plea-
sure and benefit from it.”
Mount Margaret
Frenzen’s favorite spot of
the monument — he said this
was not an easy choice — is
Mount Margaret, where hikers
can look across Spirit Lake into
the crater of the volcano. The
peak, located just northeast of
Spirit Lake and Mount St. Hel-
ens, is around 5,800 feet tall
and is in the heart of the volca-
no’s blast area.
From that viewpoint, Fren-
zen said it’s remarkable to wit-
ness how quickly vegetation
and wildlife have returned.
“It’s hard almost for me to
remember what it was like,”
he said. “I look at photographs,
and I do remember, it’s hard to
forget the way the landscape
looked. But it’s so different
now than it was right after the
eruption, that it’s almost hard to
wrap my brain around that I’m
standing in the same place.”
Frenzen said one of the U.S.
Forest Service’s challenges in
managing the monument is
balancing the needs of tour-
ists with preserving the natural
landscape. He believes the For-
est Service has done a solid job
of walking that tightrope, even
though tourists still get upset
about being forced to stay on
trails.
“There are 200 miles of
trails people can hike, and they
take you to some of the neatest
places,” Frenzen said. “I know
there are people that are upset
that you have to stay on the
trail, but you can pretty much
see what you need to see from
the trail. What defines the trail
is the plants on the sides of the
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Associated Press
SEATTLE — Analysis
by a group of Washington
state marijuana experts has
found that youth use of pot
and cannabis-abuse treat-
ment did not increase after
the state’s legalization of
marijuana for grown-ups.
The Seattle Times
reported that under the
state’s legal-pot law, the
Washington State Insti-
tute for Public Policy
is required to conduct
cost-benefit analyses of
legalization on issues rang-
ing from drugged-driv-
ing to prenatal use of
marijuana.
Adam Darnell, the state
Legislature think tank’s
lead
researcher,
says
there’s not much evidence
so far that legalization has
caused changes.
Darnell says researchers
have, however, found that
adults consumed more pot
in parts of the state with
higher per capita sales.
The experts’ report was
released shortly after U.S.
Attorney General Jeff Ses-
sions criticized implemen-
tation of legal pot in the
state.
Washington state
threatens legal action
over DACA repeal
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Washing-
ton state’s attorney gen-
eral is threatening legal
action as President Don-
ald Trump ends a program
that protects young immi-
grants brought into the
U.S. illegally as children.
The Trump adminis-
tration announced today
that it would dismantle the
Deferred Action for Child-
hood Arrivals, or DACA,
program after a six-month
delay.
Washington state Attor-
ney General Bob Fergu-
son said Monday that the
attorney general’s office
will file suit to end what
he called Trump’s “cruel
and illegal policy” and
defend DACA recipients.
Ferguson says he’s been
working with legal teams
around the country, and
expects to be joined by
other states in the action.
Gov. Jay Inslee said
more than 17,000 Dream-
ers live in Washington
state and they will work
relentlessly to protect
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Loves kayaking
In his spare time, Frenzen
continues to surround him-
self with the outdoors. He said
he loves kayaking, gardening,
cross-country skiing and going
on walks with his wife.
Franklin said Frenzen’s life-
long dedication to the mon-
ument has helped it greatly
throughout the years.
“(Frenzen) doesn’t give up
on ideas or people or activities,
and because of his persistence,
he’s been a very significant sta-
bilizing influence,” Franklin
said. “He’s provided a lot of
continuity for what’s going on
at the monument.”
Unfortunately, Frenzen said,
his staff scientist position will
not be replaced because of bud-
get cuts. Still, even after retire-
ment, Frenzen doesn’t plan on
abandoning his volcano just yet
— but he might explore a few
other places as well.
“There are so many trails
and places I haven’t hiked.
Oddly enough, there are a lot
of places I haven’t hiked at
Mount St. Helens I’d like to
hike. I plan to do a lot of hiking,
travel around North America,
probably also other places in
the world. I’ll enjoy the time I
have remaining and the friends
I have and live my life.”
hasn’t increased
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trail, and their flowers wouldn’t
be there if everyone ran all over
the place.”
Frenzen has received
many accolades throughout
his career, including the For-
est Service’s 2010 Gifford Pin-
chot Award for Excellence in
Interpretation and Conserva-
tion Education, and Educator
of the Year for Forest Region
6, which includes Washington
and Oregon, that same year.
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