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

GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) – Four miles from the nearest plowed road, high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a 73-year-old man with a flowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged across his front yard to measure the fresh snow that fell during a mid-March day . Billy Barr first started recording snow and weather data more … Read more