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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)
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In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber, left, drops a bomb over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea Saturday, July 8, 2017. Two U.S. bombers flew to the Korean Peninsula to join fighter jets from South Korea and Japan for a practice bombing run as part of a training mission in response to North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programs, officials said Friday. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)
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File - In this Aug. 26, 2013 file photo, a fire truck drives past burning trees as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. California's emergency services director says the federal government has failed to reimburse $18 million for fighting fires on federal lands in the state. Mark Ghilarducci said in a sharply worded letter to the U.S. Forest Service chief this week that the federal agency had ignored its financial responsibility and raised the possibility the state might stop responding to fires in national forests, Friday, July 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2013 file photo, firefighter A.J. Tevis watches the flames of the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. California's emergency services director says the federal government has failed to reimburse $18 million for fighting fires on federal lands in the state. Mark Ghilarducci said in a sharply worded letter to the U.S. Forest Service chief this week that the federal agency had ignored its financial responsibility and raised the possibility the state might stop responding to fires in national forests, Friday, July 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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RETRANSMISSION TO CHANGE TERMINOLOGY FROM PUP TO CALF - In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017, photo provided by Alaska SeaLife Center shows a walrus calf in a quarantined pen as it's cared for at the Alaska SeaLife Center, in Seward, Alaska. The calf was found on a mining barge in Nome, Alaska, and transported to the SeaLife Center, which is the only facility in Alaska that holds permits to care for stranded marine mammals. Center officials estimate the calf was two weeks old when it was found. (Jennifer Gibbins/Alaska SeaLife Center via AP)
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CORRECTS DATE - In this Friday July 7, 2017, photo provided by Alaska SeaLife Center, Dr. Kathy Woody, veterinarian at the Alaska SeaLife Center, left, and Brett Long, husbandry director, examine a walrus calf currently in the Center's I.Sea.U critical care unit in Seward, Alaska. The calf was found on a mining barge in Nome, Alaska, and transported to the SeaLife Center, which is the only facility in Alaska that holds permits to care for stranded marine mammals. Center officials estimate the calf was two weeks old when it was found. (Jennifer Gibbins/Alaska SeaLife Center via AP)
