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A U.S. Forest Service fire fighter carries a rescued deer fawn away form a spreading blaze in the dense Prescott National Forest Friday, June 30, 2017 near Prescott Valley, Ariz. The U.S. Forest Service posted photos and a video on Facebook showing the Friday night rescue, where Hotshots rounded up two deer fawns. (Stephen Rhine/ U.S. Forest Service via AP)
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Grave marker for Mammy Kate, who rescued her master, Stephen Heard after the British had set his execution.
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FILE - In this June 2, 2017, file photo, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. A federal appeals court in Washington says Pruitt overstepped his authority in trying to delay implementation of a 2016 rule requiring oil and gas companies to monitor and reduce methane leaks. In a split decision, the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Monday, July 3, that EPA must move forward with the Obama-era requirement that aims to reduce the planet-warming emissions from oil and gas operations. Pruitt announced in April that he would delay by 90 days the deadline for oil and gas companies to follow the new rule, which they were required to comply with starting last month. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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In this June 27, 2017 photo, a just-released Dakota Skipper butterfly perches on a coneflower at The Nature Conservancy's Hole-In-The-Mountain Prairie near Lake Benton in southwest Minnesota. A butterfly conservation biologist is helping with efforts to reintroduce the Dakota skipper to its old habitats in the southwestern Minnesota prairies. (Mark Steil/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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In this June 27, 2017 photo, Marissa Ahlering, prairie ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, Joe Blastick, center, The Nature Conservancy's conservation manager for eastern South Dakota and southwest Minnesota and Minnesota Zoo butterfly conservation biologist Erik Runquist prepare to release Dakota Skipper butterflies at Hole-In-The-Mountain Prairie near Lake Benton, Minn. They are helping with efforts to reintroduce the Dakota skipper to its old habitats in the southwestern Minnesota prairies. (Mark Steil/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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In this June 21, 2017 photo, three flavors of vegan ice cream - from left, Planet Earth, Matcha Green Tea, and Toasted Coconut Brownie Sundae - are on display at a Van Leeuwen shop in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Van Leeuwen serves both dairy and non-dairy artisan ice cream at five shops in New York and three in Los Angeles — and business is booming. (AP Photo/Michael Noble Jr.)
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FILE - In this June 10, 2016 file photo, a helicopter with the New York City Health Department flies over Staten Island en route to spreading granules of mosquito larvicide on marshland in New York. The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University reports that 2017 was the fourth-wettest spring on record from West Virginia to Maine., raising concerns about a corresponding spike in mosquito-borne illnesses. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE - In this April 18, 2017, file photo, an employee of All Habitat Services LLC, of Branford, Conn., scoops out water from a rain pool in a flooded swam at Eisenhower Park in Milford, Conn., looking for mosquito larvae and pupae before a press conference at the park by the Milford Health Department discussing its mosquito control program. The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University reports that it was the fourth-wettest spring on record from West Virginia to Maine., raising concerns about a corresponding spike in mosquito-borne illnesses. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP, File)
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This camera trap photo taken July 2016 and supplied by Panthera group, shows a leopard in Angola, which has taken steps to welcome international conservationists who are assessing the state of national parks following the nearly three-decade civil war that ended in 2002. Conservation groups say many wildlife populations were depleted and the situation is dire, but there's potential to rebuild despite the continuing threat of poaching. (Panthera via AP)
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The June 27, 2017 photo shows a tree in the entrance of the 'Geissenkloesterle' cave in Blaubeuren, Germany. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. wo sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years - caves with art dating to the Ice Age, and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago - highlight submissions from Germany being considered as World Heritage Sites by the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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In this June 27, 2017 photo archaeologists work at an excavation in the 'Hohle Fels' caves in Blaubeuren, Germany. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. wo sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years - caves with art dating to the Ice Age, and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago - highlight submissions from Germany being considered as World Heritage Sites by the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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In this June 27, 2017 photo archaeologists work at an excavation in the 'Hohle Fels' caves in Blaubeuren, Germany. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. wo sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years - caves with art dating to the Ice Age, and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago - highlight submissions from Germany being considered as World Heritage Sites by the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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In this June 27, 2017 photo the 'Venus of Hohle Fels' figure is pictured in the Prehistory Museum in Blaubeuren, Germany. The 40,000 years old ivory Venus figurine is considered the oldest example of human figurative prehistoric art. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. wo sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years - caves with art dating to the Ice Age, and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago - highlight submissions from Germany being considered as World Heritage Sites by the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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The June 27, 2017 photo shows the entrance at the 'Sirgenstein' cave in Blaubeuren, Germany. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. wo sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years - caves with art dating to the Ice Age, and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago - highlight submissions from Germany being considered as World Heritage Sites by the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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The June 27, 2017 photo shows a general view of the 'Hohle Fels' caves in Blaubeuren, Germany. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. Art dating to the Ice Age was found in the caves. wo sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years - caves with art dating to the Ice Age, and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago - highlight submissions from Germany being considered as World Heritage Sites by the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2010, file photo, Chief hurricane forecaster James Franklin prepares for a live update on Hurricane Earl at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Franklin, a retiring chief of the hurricane specialist unit at the National Hurricane Center in Miami says further cuts to tropical weather research threaten to undermine recent improvements in hurricane intensity forecasts. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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(Greater Williamsburg Chamber and Tourism Alliance)
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(Amazon)
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In this photo taken Feb. 21, 2017, a group of elk move past another that had died on the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming. This past winter was hard on wildlife in seven western states including Wyoming because of heavy snow and bouts of bitter cold that hit areas where wildlife spend the winter months. Some states have reduced hunting licenses as a result. (Ryan Dorgan/Jackson Hole News & Guide via AP)
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In this Jan. 18, 2017, file photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, elk feed at the Wenaha Wildlife Area near Troy, Ore. Wildlife managers in seven states in the U.S. West, including Oregon, report severe weather this past winter was rough on wildlife. (Keith Kohl/ Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
