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April 22, 2014

Crater Lake snowfall declining

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — You wouldn't know it from appearances, but Oregon's only national park has been losing snow.

Crater Lake National Park averaged 460 inches of snow each year between 2000 and 2013. Though that's plenty of powder for the thousands of cross-country skiers and snowshoers who visit each year, it's much less than what the park got in the 1930s and 1940s — when the annual average was more than 600 inches.


 
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