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Colorado’s drought situation improves, but snowfall still below normal
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Colorado’s drought situation vastly improved this month compared to over a year ago, but experts worry about wildfire potential if the state doesn’t get good snow and rain in the spring, according to presentations at Thursday’s state Water Availability Task Force meeting. Last year’s poor precipitation has had a dramatic effect on reservoir storage across…
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HIGH AND DRY: Colorado in Drought | State’s residents have coped with extreme dryness for generations
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In the first part of our series, we explore the history of The Dry, a Black community in southeast Colorado undone by drought. Check back Wednesday, March 3, 2021 for part 2. (Video by Skyler Ballard) When Rolan Dixon arrived with her family on the high plains of Colorado in 1916, the landscape in its…
