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We Are All To Blame For The Oso Slide

caption: Dan Miller, a geomorphologist, hikes to a potential debris field in the North Cascades to look for signs in the landscape of landslides.
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Dan Miller, a geomorphologist, hikes to a potential debris field in the North Cascades to look for signs in the landscape of landslides.
KCTS Photo/Katie Campbell

As a geomorphologist, Dan Miller has extensively studied the land formations and landslide history of the Stillaguamish Valley and Steelhead Haven. Miller and other scientists knew it to be a hazardous place, long before the devastating slide occurred.

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From KCTS: Miller talks about his experience in Oso.

KUOW 94.9 and KCTS 9 collaborated to produce this series of profiles of people most affected by the landslidea woman rescued from the mud, a couple who lost their home, a first responder struggling with post-traumatic stress, and leaders, municipal and spiritual, still working tirelessly for their community.

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