The U.S. Geological Survey considers Glaciar Peak in Snohomish County one of the most dangerous — and least monitored — volcanoes in the country and it wants permission to place four new monitoring stations there. Back in 2005, USGS scientists singled out the 10,542 foot high Glaciar, along with Mount Baker, Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens as peaks in desperate need of more and better research and monitoring. If Glaciar were to blow, reports The Everett Herald, "it could send a massive wall of mud, rock and glacial melt down the Stillaguamish and Skagit river valleys, ripping through Darrington and parts of Arlington and Stanwood." The USGS is waiting for approval from the U.S. Forest Service to install instruments that can track and transmit seismic activity in real time.
