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HIS SNOWFALL DATA IS PILING UP NEW HIPS ARE HELPING CITIZEN-SCIENTIST KEEP HIS 50-YEAR
citizen scienceRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryColoradoGothicSouthwestArizonaColorado River Headwaters
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GOTHIC, Colo. - Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, a 73-year-old man with a billowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged through his front yard to measure fresh snow that fell during one mid-March day. Billy Barr first began recording snow and weather d
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