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“There could be places where agriculture is no longer viable,” says Guillaume Mauger, a scientist in the university’s Climate Impacts Group who worked on the projections.

As spring turns to summer, snowpack acts as a giant and frozen reservoir, melting gradually and flowing into the state’s relatively small, dammed reservoirs, when there is room to spare, said Guillaume Mauger, a research scientist with UW’s Climate Impacts Group.

Washington’s annual peak mountain snowpack can hold as much as 25 million acre-feet, according to Mauger and his colleague, Matt Rogers.

One of the individuals involved in the fight gave Detroit News' Craig Mauger a warning for any would-be future Michigan brawlers:

“We conduct disciplined operations with warranted risk to put our resources and our lives at risk to save others,” Mauger said.