Kurtis Alexander

environment reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle

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This month’s heat wave broke temperature records across the American West, and now the top of Mount Shasta is largely brown. It used to have almost year-round snow cap.

With less snow and ice at Mt. Shasta, Californians face more water restrictions

This month’s heat wave broke temperature records across the American West, and now the top of Mount Shasta is largely brown. It used to have almost year-round snow cap.

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