by shadylady » Sat May 07, 2016 7:49 am
sandman: Not really much hard data to judge the quality of a spring bloom one year with a previous year. It's mostly just a subjective judgement. There are certain objective measurements which could be taken, but I doubt anyone actually takes the time each year to do the fieldwork required for that kind of thing. So, fact-checking isn't something that reporters can do much of. They just have to take the word of the rangers or whoever they talk to and there's a good chance that many of those rangers weren't around for the last truly super bloom.