What happens when the mountain snowpack melts – Burns Times-Herald

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What happens when the mountain snowpack melts – Burns Times-Herald

Photo by Nick Wagner, Foresight Drones Lauren Brown for Burns Times-Herald Mountain snowpack is key to the Harney Basin water year Oregon topographic map. A healthy snowpack in the Harney Basin benefits not only ranchers and farmers who rely on it to grow hay, but also migrating birds who depend on the flood irrigated wet meadows in the spring as they travel to their northern breeding grounds. Current snowpack numbers put the Harney Basin at a s…