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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 30 > Area snowpack isn’t what it was

Area snowpack isn’t what it was

Scientists aren’t worried yet, saying there’s still ‘time to make it up’

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
January 30, 2009

The surveyors noticed a change in the snowpack before they even reached the measurement site.

Last month, after Ryan Miebach and Michelle Richwine of the U.S. Department of Agriculture crossed the Cascade Lakes Highway to get to the site, they had to scramble up the snowbank.

“Last....

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