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FILE - In this May 8, 2014, file photo, bats hang from the ceiling of a cave in Dorset, Vt. A newly revised report shows no improvement in the population of cave-dwelling bats in Connecticut. The Connecticut Council on Environmental Quality is warning that the continued absence of bats will be a “boon to nocturnal moths and beetles” that threaten to infest forests and crops. Cave-dwelling bats in Connecticut and a growing number of states have been decimated by a fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)
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The Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles at twilight is blacked out, the only light coming from a laptop computer screen in a home, foreground, and from a few others with backup power, as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said about 140,000 people are without electricity after the agency shut down a power station in the northeast San Fernando Valley that caught fire Saturday, July 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Flames from a wildfire engulf trees near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. The fire south of Oroville was one of more than a dozen burning in the state as firefighters worked in scorching temperatures to control unruly flames. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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The remains of a recreational vehicle rest in a clearing after a wildfire burned through the property on Saturday, July 8, 2017, near Oroville, Calif. The fire south of Oroville was one of more than a dozen burning in the state as firefighters worked in scorching temperatures to control unruly flames. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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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)
