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Archive Home > 2007 > October > 22 > Disappearing glaciers

Disappearing glaciers

Like others worldwide, Central Oregon’s Collier Glacier is shrinking – ‘We have basically a really sad picture’

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
October 22, 2007

On the far side of the Three Sisters, near the peak of Middle Sister, Collier Glacier has advanced and receded for the last several hundred thousand years.

But it will soon be time to bring rose petals to the mountain and sprinkle them on the glacier’s remaining ice, bidding it....

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