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The mountains of Colorado and northern New Mexico got more than a foot of snow this weekend, and meteorologists said the Albuquerque area could be looking at record rainfall this month. But this is only a start toward recovery.
'It'll help,' said Larry Palser, a farmer in Colorado's Washington County. 'It'll buy us some time.'
The United States Natural Resources Conservation Service says there could be water restrictions and widespread crop and pasture losses in central Nevada, southern Idaho, most of south-central Montana and eastern and southwestern Utah.
Most of southern Idaho and parts of southwest Montana are in 'exceptional drought,' the Department of Agriculture said. That's a step worse than 'extreme drought,' which the department said best described the situation in other parts of Montana and in Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon and Colorado.
With dry trees raising the risk of wildfires, it is not just farmers who will be hurting. Already this year, 10,000 acres have burned in Arizona, along with 8,500 acres in Colorado.
'In terms of fire, I think everybody is real nervous,' said Chris West, vice president of the American Forest Resource Council in Portland, Ore.

we definitely are in extreme drought here in eastern Colorado. Pastoring two small churches out here and many of the farmers are hurting. Many are looking for jobs in town or with the USDA. All of the dry land farmers will be making insurance claims on their wheat crops this year.