Back in Time - Volcanoes
tourists examine a lava field in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park June 1976 Forty-two years ago, I visited Hawaii for the first time, and the tour featured a stop at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It was a desolate landscape, filled with lava fields and very little vegetation. lava mound Hawaii Volcanoes National Park June 1976 Kilauea caldera rim taken from the Kilauea Visitor Center Hawaii Volcanoes National Park June 1976 It doesn't look anything like the images that are currently on the nightly news. Those living in the path of Kilauea's recent eruptions must be terrified. Not many people think about having a live volcano in their backyard. Do you? I live 240 miles from the world's largest supervolcano caldera in Yellowstone National Park and sometimes ponder the threat that it "could" present. The likelihood of an eruption is small . . . or is it?