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A mass of vehicles fills a desert canyon in a remote area north of Rio Rancho, N.M., Monday, June 26, 2017. New Mexico land managers are partnering with Zia Pueblo to fence off the area in hopes of curbing illegal dumping and shooting on state trust land and adjacent tribal land. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, water flows through an irrigation canal to crops near Lemoore, Calif. The federal regulators evaluating Gov. Jerry Brown's decades-old ambitions to re-engineer the water supplies from California's largest river are promising a status update Monday, June 26, 2017, as Brown's $16 billion proposal to shunt part of the Sacramento through two mammoth tunnels awaits a crucial yes or no from national agencies. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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In a June 15, 2017 photo, Sally Gorrill, a captain in the U.S. Army, removes unauthorized markings from a tree along a trail in a wilderness area of the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. Several soldiers looking to transition to a new career are spending the summer in the forest as part of an internship, getting training in land management skills as they prepare to transition out of the service. (Terry Asbridge via AP)
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In this June 25, 2017, photo released by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office, taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle, shows floodwaters from the Kings River surrounding homes at the Kings River Golf and Country Club in Kingsburg, Calif. Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along the Kings River in Central California. The Kings River began to flood Wednesday about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Fresno as temperatures soared, melting snow in the Sierra Nevada and sending it downstream. (Tulare County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This June 25, 2017, photo taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle and released by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office shows flooding from the Kings River at the Kings River Golf and Country Club in Kingsburg, Calif. Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along the Kings River in Central California. The Kings River began to flood Wednesday about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Fresno as temperatures soared, melting snow in the Sierra Nevada and sending it downstream. (Tulare County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This June 25, 2017, photo taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle and released by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office shows flooding from the Kings River at the Kings River Golf and Country Club in Kingsburg, Calif. Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along the Kings River in Central California. The Kings River began to flood Wednesday about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Fresno as temperatures soared, melting snow in the Sierra Nevada and sending it downstream. (Tulare County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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In this Friday, June 16, 2017, photo, water flows from a replica of the Oroville Dam spillway at Utah State University's Water Research Laboratory, in Logan, Utah. California water officials are relying on key hydrology tests being performed on the replica of the spillway to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest dam in the U.S for a spillway that was torn apart in February. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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In this Friday, June 16, 2017, photo, water flows from a replica of the Oroville Dam spillway at Utah State University's Water Research Laboratory, in Logan, Utah. California water officials are relying on key hydrology tests being performed on the replica of the spillway to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest dam in the U.S for a spillway that was torn apart in February. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A motorcyclist looks on as he drives next to a pile of garbage in Piraeus, near Athens, on Monday, June 26, 2017. Municipality workers have been on strike for almost a week , hindering trash collection across the country. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A man walk next an optical shop behind a pile of garbage in Piraeus, near Athens, on Monday, June 26, 2017. Municipality workers have been on strike for almost a week, hindering trash collection across the country. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, file photo, Indian women use bare hands to pick reusable pieces from heaps of used coal discarded by a carbon factory in Gauhati, India. The world’s biggest coal users — China, the United States and India — have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath, File)
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A juvenile osprey looks at surveyors as the prepare to capture him during a tagging and survey operation of the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, June 9, 2017. Ospreys build nests with just about anything: tree branches, stuffed animals, flip flops _ even an opossum skull. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Research associate for the Center for Conservation Biology for the College of W&M and Virginia Commonwealth University, Reese Lukei Jr., shows the talons of a juvenile osprey on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, June 9, 2017. “It’s a great time for fish-eating birds on the Chesapeake Bay,” said Bryan D. Watts, director of the Center for Conservation Biology, a research group that’s part of the College of William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University. “But we have to maintain some vigilance about other forces that can cause some problems.” (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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A juvenile osprey sits in a tub as it is weighed during a survey and tagging operation by the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, June 9, 2017. The protected species faces threats such as pollution and predators that also have rebounded from DDT. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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An inspection mirror shows two osprey eggs discovered in a nest during the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center tagging and survey operation on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, June 9, 2017. Although they've rebounded, conservationists continue to tag ospreys while counting their eggs and nests. The protected species faces threats such as pollution and predators that also have rebounded from DDT. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Research associate for the Center for Conservation Biology for the College of W&M and Virginia Commonwealth University, Reese Lukei Jr., right, holds an inspection mirror as he and Matt Klepeisz, inspect an osprey nest on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, June 9, 2017. The abundance of nests is proof of the bird’s surging population in recent decades after the insecticide DDT nearly wiped them out last century. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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In this Thursday, June 22, 2017 photo, rare wild orchids bloom in the Eshqua Bog in Hartland, Vt. This particular orchid is considered rare in Vermont. It thrives in the area that is technically defined as a fen because of the wet, sunny conditions, with soil containing peat and lime. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Thursday, June 22, 2017 photo, rare wild orchids bloom in the Eshqua Bog in Hartland, Vt. This particular orchid is considered rare in Vermont. It thrives in the area that is technically defined as a fen because of the wet, sunny conditions, with soil containing peat and lime. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Thursday, June 22, 2017 photo, rare wild orchids bloom in the Eshqua Bog in Hartland, Vt. This particular orchid is considered rare in Vermont. It thrives in the area that is technically defined as a fen because of the wet, sunny conditions, with soil containing peat and lime. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Thursday, June 22, 2017 photo, a rare wild orchid blooms in the Eshqua Bog in Hartland, Vt. This particular orchid is considered rare in Vermont. It thrives in the area that is technically defined as a fen because of the wet, sunny conditions, with soil containing peat and lime. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
