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• Low snowpack levels have officials making drought plans

  March 21, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A1 As cross-country skiers whizzed along crusty trails of hardened snow at Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park last week, Scott Pattee taught a boisterous group of grade-schoolers how to measure …

• Statewide snowpack 70 percent of average

  March 9, 2010 in City on Page A5 Warmer than normal temperatures are melting Washington’s mediocre snowpack – and with it, almost all hope for average stream flows this summer.

• March storms top off snowpack

  April 11, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Good news for irrigators and thrill-seeking rafters. Below-average mountain snowpacks in the Inland Northwest rebounded in March, thanks to chilly temperatures and late storms that pelted the region with heavy, …