News Roundup: Dwindling snowpack and water levels, big box solar, vandalism

What's going on around the West

The La Sal Mountains in southeastern Utah were still blanketed in white as of late January, but the snow had mostly melted from mid-elevation mesa tops. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

The Western U.S. 2022 winter has been a bit manic so far, swinging from a snow-sad October and November to jubilant late December storms that cranked snowpack levels from abo…