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Firefighters battle a wildfire near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported that several residents and one firefighter suffered minor injuries. Residents were ordered to evacuate from several roads in the rural area as flames climbed tall trees. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Flames surround a marijuana plant as a wildfire burns near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. Residents were ordered to evacuate from several roads in the rural area as flames climbed tall trees. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Flames from a wildfire consume an all-terrain vehicle near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. Residents were ordered to evacuate from several roads in the rural area as flames climbed tall trees. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported that several residents and one firefighter suffered minor injuries. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Vintage trucks burned by a wildfire rest in a grove near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. Residents were ordered to evacuate from several roads in the rural area as flames climbed tall trees. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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A stove stands in front of a structure leveled by a wildfire near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. Residents were ordered to evacuate from several roads in the rural area as flames climbed tall trees. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Vintage trucks burned by the Wall fire rest in a grove near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. The forested area burning is about 10 miles south of Oroville, where spillways in the nation’s tallest dam began crumbling from heavy rains this winter and led to temporary evacuation orders for 200,000 residents downstream. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, Jay Hutton picks peaches at Hutton Peach Farm in Weatherford, Texas. Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, a sign directs people to the Hutton Peach Farm in Weatherford, Texas. Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, peaches are for sale at Hutton Peach Farm in Weatherford, Texas. Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, Jay Hutton picks peaches at Hutton Peach Farm in Weatherford, Texas. Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, Jay Hutton picks peaches at Hutton Peach Farm in Weatherford, Texas. Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, Jay Hutton picks peaches at Hutton Peach Farm in Weatherford, Texas. Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, Jay Hutton picks peaches at Hutton Peach Farm in Weatherford, Texas. Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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Flames from the Wall fire descend a hillside near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. According to CalFire, the blaze has burned 1,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Inmate firefighters battle the Wall fire near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. According to CalFire, the blaze has scorched 1,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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This 2010 photograph provided by Mississippi State University shows dead redbay trees along the Pascagoula River in Jackson County near Moss Point, Mississippi. The redbay ambrosia beetle is responsible for the death of one-third of the nation's redbay trees to date. Researchers from Mississippi and Florida say one female fungus-farming beetle inadvertently imported to Georgia may have been the source of the disease that has killed some 300 million redbay trees and threatens Florida's avocado groves. (John Riggins/Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Entomological Museum shows the tiny redbay ambrosia beetle, which was first found in the U.S. in 2002. It carries a fungus that is devastating to any tree or shrub species in the laurel family. Researchers from Mississippi and Florida say one female fungus-farming beetle inadvertently imported to Georgia may have been the source of the disease that has killed some 300 million redbay trees and threatens Florida's avocado groves. (Joe A. MacGown/Mississippi Entomological Museum via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1999 file photo, Pavel Svihra, a horticultural advisor with the University of California, holds an ambrosia beetle in his palm in San Rafael, Calif. Researchers from Mississippi and Florida say a single fungus-farming beetle inadvertently imported to Georgia apparers to be the one and only source of a disease that has killed an estimated 300 million redbay trees and is threatening Florida's avocado groves. The beetle and its fungus arrived in Georgia in 2002, and their clones have spread west into Texas and north to North Carolina. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In a June 29, 2017 photo, The Clearas Water Recovery greenhouse glows purple from the LED grow lights for the algae held in glass tubes near the settling ponds in Missoula's wastewater treatment facility. Clearas has developed a patented process to use the algae to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from the plant's waste water, keeping waterways, like Missoula's Clark Fork River, free from the compounds that starve fish and plant life of oxygen by feeding algae in the river. (Tommy Martino/The Missoulian via AP)
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In a June 29, 2017 photo, company CEO Jordan Lind says there is a lot of interest in the company's technology in the Great Lakes region, in Europe and in Asia. Formed eight years ago, Clearas Water Recovery has developed a patented process to use algae to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from public wastewater treatment plants, keeping waterways from being inundated with the compounds that starve fish and plant life of oxygen. In turn, the algae can be sold to other companies for fertilizer, biofuels and other uses. (Tommy Martino/The Missoulian via AP)
