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Winters in western Oregon tend to be cool and rainy. But summers are usually very dry. So many farmers in the region irrigate their crops. And much of the water they use comes from rivers that are fed by mountain snowpack.
But as the climate warms, that snowpack is shrinking.
Roesch-McNally: “It is, over time, going to really impact how people irrigate their crops.”
That’s Gabrielle Roesch-McNally of the Dry Farming Institute.
Her…
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