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We've lost glaciers and year around snowpack. It used to last through the summer months and the melt fed the rivers to power hydroelectric generators. The cold water also helped to keep the river temperature right for salmon spawning. Dams are coming down in order to stop the loss of salmon habitat, but it may be a losing battle.
The loss of the snow in the mountains (you can see that from the different cams you can choose above the picture) that the snow is not solid on those mountains, which they used to be. The ski industry has had some bad times here, too. A decade ago, some of the foothills kept a snow cap through the summer, even.
The state has pushed zero lawn watering and 'zeroscaping,' plants that don't need watering in the summer for many years. Studies showed that higher temperatures in the winter and the rest of the year round would cause rainfall instead of snow, which we need.
Our state government has been working to provide for the future, but as in all states, the Nordquists here are determined to starve the government and make it ineffective. I hate the Tea Party for what they are doing here.
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