- Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life NPR
- 40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes. Popular Mechanics
- How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano New Scientist
- When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to life BBC Discover Wildlife
- How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging Smithsonian Magazine