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He spent almost 50 years alone at 10,000 feet
phenologyclimate changeRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryGothicGothic MountainCrested ButteColorado RiverNew JerseyErythronium grandiflorumMarmotaVulpes vulpesPerisoreus canadensis
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GOTHIC, Colo. As world leaders gathered across the globe this month to discuss a climate crisis that is rapidly heating the Earth, Billy Barr, 71, paused outside his mountainside cabin to measure snow. His tools were simple, the same he'd used since the 1970s. A wooden ruler plunged into white flake
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