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Western Drought

NPR

Published April 9, 2001 at 12:00 AM EDT

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NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that farmers throughout the Pacific Northwest are bracing for a hot, dry summer. Rainfall is half of normal and many fear they could suffer devastating losses.