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From disaster to data: Colorado’s 2019 avalanche season felled an unprecedented number of trees.   



From disaster to data: Colorado’s 2019 avalanche season felled an unprecedented number of trees. Learn how a team of avalanche experts—with chainsaws and big lungs—spent a summer in the backcountry collecting tree ring samples to help them better understand avalanche and climate change patterns. Read Laura Yale's story on The Cleanest Line here: festivalwalk

Photo: Forest Woodward