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The season to prevent and protect against tick bites and Lyme disease is here.
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FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2017, file photo, construction crews clear rocks away from Oroville Dam's crippled spillway in Oroville, Calif. The sudden collapse of spillways at the nation's highest dam was unique because it came without warning, and the investigation into why that was is sure to change the way big dams are built and run around the world, an independent team searching for explanations into this winter's near-disaster at Oroville Dam says. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, ice that began to break up overnight shows the clearing on the Bighorn river near Worland, Wyo. Relatively minor flooding occurred in Wyoming during May from melting snow, but water experts caution residents along rivers and streams not to become complacent because the mountain snowpack remains exceptionally deep in many places and the main runoff is expected to be prolonged this year. (Karla Pomeroy/Northern Wyoming Daily News via AP, File)
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In this photo taken Friday, May 12, 2017, a NOAA sea glider on display for reporters and guests, Friday, May 12, 2017, at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Miami, at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, in Opa-locka, Fla. NOAA again will launch four underwater gliders from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to collect ocean data, and this summer the agency will expand its data pool by collaborating with universities and research institutions in the U.S. and Bermuda that have up to 20 their own gliders in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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President Donald Trump arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017, to speak about the US role in the Paris climate change accord. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is pictured after delivering a policy announcement in Toronto , on Wednesday May 31 , 2017. McKenna says the Canadian government remains committed to the Paris Accord amid concerns that the U.S. will walk away from the landmark global climate agreement. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
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This undated photo provided by Alaska Aerospace Corp. shows the corporation's mobile operations center van and its satellite communications and data antenna in Mahia, New Zealand. The state-owned Alaska Aerospace Corp. has struggled for years to gain footing and profitability and suffered a major setback in 2014 when a rocket exploded after takeoff, damaging its launch facilities on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The corporation's work in New Zealand is an example of its effort to broaden its business, both in scope and beyond the confines of Alaska. (Alaska Aerospace Corp. via AP)
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In this May 1, 2017 photo Craig Campbell, the chief executive officer of Alaska Aerospace Corporation, poses for a photo at his office in Anchorage, Alaska. Once close to death, Campbell says the state-owned agency has rebounded after a rocket exploded after a launch in 2014, leaving the launch site on Kodiak Island, in Alaska, with damaged facilities and no customers. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Proposed tariffs might give short-lived protection to a handful of privileged American solar manufacturers, but they would doom the broader U.S. solar industry and its customers by removing inexpensive choices from the market. (Associated Press/File)
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Even after President Trump withdrew U.S. support for the Paris climate change accord, domestic efforts to battle global warming continue. (Associated Press/File)
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A crater was created by a massive explosion in front of the German Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday. The suicide truck bomb hit a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul, killing scores of people and wounding hundreds more. The Chinese, Turkish and Japanese embassies were also damaged. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly listens to media during a joint press conference with Haiti's President Jovenel Moise at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Kelly traveled to Haiti for a brief visit less than two weeks after the Trump administration suggested that 58,000 Haitians in the U.S. should get ready to return home. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, left, talks with Haiti's President Jovenel Moise during a press conference in the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday May 31, 2017. Kelly traveled to Haiti for a brief visit less than two weeks after the Trump administration suggested that 58,000 Haitians in the U.S. should get ready to return home. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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An Exxon service station sign in Nashville, Tenn., is seen here on April 25, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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This photo provided by Nest Labs shows the Nest Cam IQ. Nest Labs is adding Google's facial recognition technology to a high-resolution security camera that will provide a glimpse at the potential for increasingly intelligent, internet-connected computers to see and understand everything going on in people's homes. (Nest Labs via AP)
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This photo provided by Nest Labs shows the Nest Cam IQ. (Nest Labs via AP)
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The Brayton Point Power Station, New England's largest and one of its last coal-fired power plants, appears on a cloudy day, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Somerset, Mass. The plant, which has been generating electricity since the 1960s along Mount Hope Bay, is shutting down permanently. It's been cited by federal regulators as one of the region's heaviest polluters. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
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The Brayton Point Power Station, New England's largest and one of its last coal-fired power plants, appears on a cloudy day, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Somerset, Mass. The plant, which has been generating electricity since the 1960s along Mount Hope Bay, is shutting down permanently. It's been cited by federal regulators as one of the region's heaviest polluters. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
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The Brayton Point Power Station, New England's largest and one of its last coal-fired power plants, appears on a cloudy day, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Somerset, Mass., as seen from a pub in Fall River. The plant, which has been generating electricity since the 1960s along Mount Hope Bay, is shutting down permanently. It's been cited by federal regulators as one of the region's heaviest polluters. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
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The Brayton Point Power Station, New England's largest and one of its last coal-fired power plants, appears on a cloudy day, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Somerset, Mass. The plant, which has been generating electricity since the 1960s along Mount Hope Bay, is shutting down permanently. It's been cited by federal regulators as one of the region's heaviest polluters. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien
