As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages

WASHINGTON (Stateline) — From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the summer. That snowpack is like a savings account that the West draws on when the hot, dry months arrive. It moistens the landscape […]
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