Citizen scientist measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years. Two new hips help him keep going

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GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) — Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a 73-yearold man with a billowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged through his front yard to measure fresh snow that fell during one mid-March day. Billy Barr first began recording snow and weath

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