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Article: Bear Lake yields sweet crop.
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- The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2006
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Byline: Dawn House
Aug. 2--LAKETOWN -- If you travel to one of the hamlets that dot the shores of Bear Lake, you can take home some of the valley's famous candy-like raspberries -- for the second straight year.
A worldwide epidemic had wiped out much of Rich County's crop five years ago, forcing farmers out of business or compelling them to plow under infected bushes that could have lived for 60 years.
Now the traditional canbys are ripe, along with the more virus-resistant cowachuns and other varieties for sale at highway fruit stands or that are plopped into a Bear Lake shake or picked fresh from farmers' fields.
This weekend, Bear ...