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Healthy snowpack a boon to Montana streams

May 08, 2017 by Laura Lundquist

Montana’s snowpack is the best it’s been in a handful of years, so most streams should flow nicely even through August.

May’s snowpack is what sustains the state’s streams through most of the summer, and this year, it’s above normal and half again what it was last year, according to measurements made by the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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May 08, 2017 /Laura Lundquist
snowpack, water supply

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