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The SR-71B Blackbird, flown by the Dryden Flight Research Center as NASA 831, slices across the snow-covered southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California after being refueled by an Air Force tanker during a 1994 flight. SR-71B was the trainer version of the SR-71. Notice the dual cockpit to allow the instructor to fly the airplane. USAF / Judson Brohmer
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FILE- In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo provided by Matthew Hengst, bugs swarm at a service station in the eastern Sierra Nevada town of Lone Pine, Calif. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of the sunflower seed-sized insects are swarming sites throughout the Southern California desert city, gathering on ledges outside coffee shops, flocking to bright lights at night and clinging to the crevices of windows. (Matthew Hengst via AP, File)
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FILE- In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo provided by Matthew Hengst, bugs swarm at a service station in the eastern Sierra Nevada town of Lone Pine, Calif. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of the sunflower seed-sized insects are swarming sites throughout the Southern California desert city, gathering on ledges outside coffee shops, flocking to bright lights at night and clinging to the crevices of windows. (Matthew Hengst via AP, File)
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FILE- In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo provided by Matthew Hengst, bugs swarm at a service station in the eastern Sierra Nevada town of Lone Pine, Calif. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of the sunflower seed-sized insects are swarming sites throughout the Southern California desert city, gathering on ledges outside coffee shops, flocking to bright lights at night and clinging to the crevices of windows. (Matthew Hengst via AP, File)
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This satellite imagery, posted Wednesday, July 19, 2017 on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, shows a large plume of smoke spreading hundreds of miles east from the Ditwiler fire, near Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada. Authorities say the stubborn wildfire burning in foothills west of Yosemite had destroyed dozens of structures while forcing thousands of people from their homes Wednesday. The San Francisco Bay Area is at left; Lake Tahoe is at top center. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via AP)
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Krystle Chambers, who with her father Chuck Wilsey had to evacuate their property near Oroville, Calif., waits at an evacuation center near Oroville, Calif., Monday, July 10, 2017. They were among about 4,000 people evacuated as flames raced through grassy foothills in the Sierra Nevada, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of Sacramento. Sheriff's deputies drove through neighborhoods announcing evacuation orders over loudspeakers. "It's hard, it's rough," she said. "Way too many hits. First it's this side of town, then the other side of town. It almost makes you want to move." (AP Photo/Krystle Chambers)
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In this May 15, 2017, selfie shows hiker Brien Bower in a snow storm along Pacific Crest Trail in California's southern Sierra Nevada. Bower, who hiked the 2,600-mile trail in 2015, detoured from the trail this spring after being caught in an avalanche and encountering dangerous river crossings and ended his effort to complete the hike after getting sick. (Brien Bower via AP)
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In this photo taken April 10, 2017, birds fly over the Kings River swollen with water from rain and melting snow in the Sierra Nevada near Hanford, Calif. State officials have lifted the drought emergency for much of the state, but drought has yet to loosen its grip on thousands of resident in the San Joaquin Valley where domestic wells have run dry, forcing them to wash and flush toilets with water from tanks next to their homes. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 file photo, fog and mist shroud the Sierra Nevada, near Echo Summit, Calif. The National Weather Service says this is now the wettest winter on record in the Northern California mountains. Weather Service officials say an index of precipitation at eight stations in the northern Sierra Nevada surpassed the old record at about 4 a.m. Thursday, April 13, 2017, with just under 90 inches of rain and snow. The previous record of 88.5 inches was set in the winter of 1982-1983. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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This July 16, 2005 photo shows the mostly dry bed of Owens Lake, near Lone Pine, Calif., seen from the flanks of the eastern Sierra Nevada. The lake, which dried up when the Owens River was diverted to the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the early 20th century, is expected to be flooded by 200,000 acre-feet of runoff from a massive snowpack in the Eastern Sierra that is predicted to exceed the capacity of the entire aqueduct system. (AP Photo/John Antczak)
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FILE - In this April 28, 2015, file photo, a Sierra Nevada lake in California is surrounded by barren ridges, usually covered in snow that time of year, during an aerial survey of the snowpack done by the California Department of Water Resources. California state water managers are measuring the Sierra Nevada snowpack Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2017, in a third reading of the year, shaping up to be California's wettest winter on record. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 file photo, fog and mist shroud the Sierra Nevada, near Echo Summit, Calif. Water managers will once again manually measure California's snowpack, saying the state is on track for one of the wettest winters on record after five years of drought. The California Department of Water Resources will do the survey Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in the Sierra Nevada. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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This June 23, 2005, aerial photo provided by the California Department of Water Resources shows Oroville Dam, Lake Oroville and the Feather River in the foothills of Sierra Nevada near Oroville, Calif. The concrete spillway that was undermined and developed huge holes in the last few days is at lower left. Release of water from the dam, the damaged spillway and the use of an earthen emergency spillway has caused a temporary evacuation on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, of thousands of people downstream. (Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources via AP)
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In this photo taken on on Jan. 26, 2017, two women take photos of the Sierra Nevada mountains on the California Zephyr train. AP Tampa correspondent Tamara Lush spent 15 days traveling via train across the U.S. as part of Amtrak's residency program, designed for creative professionals to spend time writing on the rails. She spoke with dozens of people _ fellow travelers, friends and family waiting for loved one at stations, train workers _ and filed occasional dispatches for the Tales on a Train project. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)
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Fog and mist shroud the Sierra Nevada, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, near Echo Summit, Calif. The California Department of Water Resources held the second manual snow survey Thursday at nearby Phillips station. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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In this May 2015 photo provided by Michael Brown, John and Lesley Ripper pose in the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia that had a tunnel carved into it in the 1880s, during a visit to Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada. The tree came crashing down on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, during a massive storm. “I was blown away,” said John Ripper, a 55-year-old printer in Northville, Michigan. “I’ve traveled to 70 countries, But that particular tree and being able to walk underneath it and touch it was quite a memorable moment and something I won’t soon forget.” (Michael Brown via AP)
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This Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 photo provided by Jim Allday shows an informational sign at the ruins of the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold in California's Sierra Nevada, after it came crashing down during a storm earlier Sunday. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada swept through the area over the weekend. Park volunteer Joan Allday said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years. (Jim Allday via AP)
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This Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 photo provided by Jim Allday shows the ruins of the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold in California's Sierra Nevada, after it came crashing down during a storm earlier Sunday. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada swept through the area over the weekend. Park volunteer Joan Allday said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years. (Jim Allday via AP)
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This Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 photo provided by Jim Allday shows the ruins of the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold in California's Sierra Nevada, after it came crashing down during a storm earlier Sunday. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada swept through the area over the weekend. Park volunteer Joan Allday said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years. (Jim Allday via AP)
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In this May 2015 photo provided by Michael Brown, John and Lesley Ripper pose in the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia that had a tunnel carved into it in the 1880s, during a visit to Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada. The tree came crashing down on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, as a massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada swept through the area over the weekend. Park volunteer Joan Allday said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years. (Michael Brown via AP)
