Ask any Northwest skiers and they’ll tell you it’s been a bad year for snow. They’re right. While the Northeast was pummeled by storms the past couple of months, snow levels are at record lows in Washington and Oregon.
But water managers say it’s not time to hit the panic button, yet. From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Ashley Ahearn of EarthFix reports.
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- Ashley Ahearn, environment reporter at KUOW and part of the multimedia collaborative project EarthFix. She tweets @aahearn.
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