Summit daily follow up on dust and early snow melt

The Summit daily has a detailed article about the effects of dust blowing in from Utah, and coating the snow in the Rockies. This causes the snow to melt faster, by as much as 18 days, which creates problems for water users in Colorado. The dust is from soil that is disturbed by cows and ORVs that crush bacteria, called cryptograms, that hold the soil in deserts together.