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Rain & Shine

Rain & Shine: Drought and Agriculture

By Calla Rose Ostrander
Published December 30, 2021 at 5:11 PM MST
Kiss the Ground

Looking at drought maps in 2021 it was striking to see that the areas in Colorado and in California that are under the most intensive tillage also were suffering from the most extreme drought. Could there be a relationship?

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Calla Rose Ostrander
Calla Rose was born in Tucson AZ and grew up in the Rocky Mountain West. She attended Shining Mountain Waldorf school in Boulder Colorado K-12 and graduated with a degree in International Political Economy on a classical cello scholarship, from the University of Puget Sound. After spending some time in California she is happily back in Colorado and living in Paonia.
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