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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2007 file photo, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson, right, gets ready to sign the state's first commercial hemp farming license for Rep. David Monson, R-Osnabrock, right, at the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. Neither Monson nor farmer Wayne Hauge, who were issued the nation's first hemp production licenses, has grown a crop, after failing to get approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration and losing a court battle against the federal government. Both farmers hope a farm bill provision allowing for the cultivation of research hemp crops will be a huge step toward making marijuana's cousin a viable farm commodity. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2007 file photo, farmers Wayne Hauge, left, and Dave Monson talk about their industrial hemp lawsuit during a news conference in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota's Agriculture Department issued the nation's first hemp production licenses to Monson and Hauge but neither has grown a crop, after failing to get approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration and losing a court battle against the federal government. Both farmers hope a farm bill provision allowing for the cultivation of research hemp crops will be a huge step toward making marijuana's cousin a viable farm commodity. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Will Kincaid, File)
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This Feb. 5, 2014 photo released by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities shows Richardson Highway at Keystone Canyon, Valdez, Alaska. On Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014 two weeks after cascades of snow prevented vehicles from getting into the only road to Valdez has reopened. Crews finished clearing away the remaining avalanche debris, and there was no damage to Richardson Highway. (AP Photo/Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities)
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** FILE ** This undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of Interior shows a Preble's meadow jumping mouse captured at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Denver. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wednesday Oct. 7, 2009, proposed doubling the amount of critical habitat for the Preble's meadow jumping mouse to about 39,000 acres from the current 18,462 acres. The proposal would add 184 miles of rivers and streams to land considered essential to survival of the mouse, on the endangered species list since 1998. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Interior, File)
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**FILE ** In this undated file photo, provided by the Center for Native Ecosystems, shows a rare jumping mouse. The tiny Preble's meadow jumping mouse took center stage again Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, as a House committee scheduled a field hearing on the debate over whether it is a separate species entitled to federal protection. (AP Photo/Center for Native Ecosystems, Anne Ruggles)
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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF JUNE 12-13 - FILE ** An unidentified wildlife ecologist holds an animal near Boulder, Colo., in this October 2003 file photo, that had been considered by biologists to be a Preble's meadow jumping mouse - at least until genetic research suggested it is the same as one of its cousins, the Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse. The Preble's meadow jumping mouse was listed as a federally protected species. (AP Photo/Bear Canyon Consulting, Anne K Ruggles, File)
