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Boost to Colorado Snowpack May Lessen Wildfire Risk
2013-04-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As recently as late March it appeared that most of the West, including Colorado, was headed for a long, and tinderbox-dry spring and summer, with the effects of a long-running drought becoming ever more apparent in the form of dwindling water supplies and destructive wildfires. Many officials feared a repeat of last year's disastrous wildfire season, when Colorado saw its most destructive wildfire on record strike the Colorado Springs area. And then winter finally arrived, in April, when the weather...
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Sierra snowpack falls short
2013-03-28 13:09:03| Energy - Topix.net
Snow-surveying crews across the Sierra are seeing bad news up close this week. California has about half a snowpack.
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Western Utility Seeds Clouds To Boost Size of Snowpack
2013-01-09 18:14:34| ENR.com: Headline News
Idaho Power, which depends upon hydropower to serve about 500,000 customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, is trying to augment its water supply by cloud seeding.
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