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FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, tracks from a nesting loggerhead turtle are seen in Miami Beach, Fla. Opportunities to observe sea turtles in Florida include events where turtles are released into the ocean after they've recovered from injuries or illness, and nighttime walks led by trained guides to see nesting activity. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, Bill Ahern, a conservation specialist for the Miami-Dade County Parks, holds a loggerhead sea turtle egg as he prepares to relocate the nest on Haulover Beach in Miami. Opportunities to observe sea turtles in Florida include events where turtles are released into the ocean after they've recovered from injuries or illness, and nighttime walks led by trained guides to see nesting activity. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, a loggerhead sea turtle hatchling makes its way into the ocean along Haulover Beach in Miami. Opportunities to observe sea turtles in Florida include events where turtles are released into the ocean after they've recovered from injuries or illness, and nighttime walks led by trained guides to see nesting activity. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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FILE - In this June 8, 2015, file photo, a loggerhead sea turtle heads to the ocean, as onlookers watch at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne, Fla. Opportunities to observe sea turtles in Florida include events where turtles are released into the ocean after they've recovered from injuries or illness, and nighttime walks led by trained guides to see nesting activity. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
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This image made from part of a U.N. internal investigation document dated Nov. 19, 2007 shows a hole in a perimeter wall of the U.N. base in Jacmel, Haiti. The report describes a statement by a teenage girl who said she and others crawled through this opening to enter the base where they was sexually abused by peacekeeper soldiers. (AP Photo)
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In this Aug. 16, 2016, file photo, a Brazilian U.N. peacekeeper opens a gate at the U.N. base in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) ** FILE **
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This Tuesday, April 4, 2017, photo shows an actual piece of the Annapolis, Md., Liberty Tree, embedded into an 18-foot-tall tree replica as a touchable element, at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. There were once 13 liberty trees, one in each of the original Colonies, where the Sons of Liberty met and plotted the Revolution. The Annapolis tulip poplar was the nation's last surviving Liberty Tree. It was so damaged by storms and decay it had to be cut down in 1999. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is worried that unseasonably warm spring temperatures may spawn extra Zika-spreaking mosquitoes this summer. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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FILE - This March 13, 2014 file photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a female wolf from the Minam pack outside La Grande, Ore., after it was fitted with a tracking collar. The number of wolves in the wilds of Oregon increased slightly last year, according to state wildlife officials. But they lost track of the South Snake Pack because none of its members wears GPS collars. (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
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Suncoast Lakes resident Kristin Werner uses her cellphone to record a Florida Forest Service helicopter dropping water behind homes on the Silver Palm fire Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Land O' Lakes. The Silver Palm Fire burned close to homes in the Suncoast Lakes subdivision Tuesday forcing residents to use garden hoses on vegetation and roofs around their property. (Chris Urso/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
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A Florida Division of Forestry worker waits to be sent out to cut a fire line around a wildfire Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Hudson, Fla. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency as more than 100 wildfires actively burn statewide. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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A Florida Forest Service helicopter carries a bucket through smoke while dropping water on the Silver Palm fire in the Suncoast Lakes subdivision Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Land O' Lakes. The Silver Palm Fire burned close to homes in the Suncoast Lakes subdivision Tuesday forcing residents to use garden hoses on vegetation and roofs around their property. (Chris Urso/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
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A Florida Division of Forestry helicopter drops a bucket of water on a wildfire Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Hudson, Fla. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency as more than 100 wildfires actively burn statewide. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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A Florida Forest Service bulldozer creates a fire break in the woods close to homes in the Suncoast Lakes subdivision Tuesday, April 11, 2017 in Land O' Lakes, Fla. The Silver Palms Fire burned close to homes Tuesday forcing residents to use garden hoses on vegetation and roofs around their property. (Chris Urso/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
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A Florida Division of Forestry helicopter drops a bucket of water on a wildfire Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Hudson, Fla. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency as more than 100 wildfires actively burn statewide. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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A Florida Division of Forestry helicopter drops a bucket of water on a wildfire Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Hudson, Fla. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency as more than 100 wildfires actively burn statewide. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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A Florida Division of Forestry helicopter drops a bucket of water on a wildfire Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Hudson, Fla. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency as more than 100 wildfires actively burn statewide. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Police and emergency personnel respond to the scene where a car damaged a large gas line causing a large gas leak and fire in Alexandria Ind., on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Residents were evacuated for a half mile radius around the leak. (Don Knight/The Herald-Bulletin via AP)
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FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif. A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met about half of the state's electricity demand for three hours on March 11, 2017--the state's goal is for 50 percent of all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
