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This Feb. 16, 2013, photo shows a Burmese python being displayed at the python hunt awards ceremony presented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, at Zoo Miami. A Florida senator who once hunted down a 9-foot Burmese python wants the state to pay private contractors to eradicate pythons and other invasive species from the Everglades.Republican Sen. Frank Artiles, who doubles as a python hunter, said during a committee meeting Tuesday that the effort is needed because “furry creatures” and American alligator nests are being destroyed by the voracious snakes. (Peter Andrew Bosch /Miami Herald via AP)
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This Dec. 1, 2016, file still image from video provided by Fort Huachuca shows a wild jaguar in southern Arizona. Conservationists are making another push to get federal wildlife officials to devote more resources to the re-establishing of wild jaguars in the American Southwest. (Fort Huachuca via AP, File)
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This image released by Broad Green Pictures shows Ryan Gosling in a scene from, "Song to Song." (Van Redin/Broad Green Pictures via AP)
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In this Sept. 30, 2016, file photo, a marijuana plant is seen before harvesting at a rural area near Corvallis, Ore. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)
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A firefighter watches from the scene of an apartment complex fire as firefighters douse fires at nearby homes Monday, March 20, 2017, in Overland Park, Kan. Once one roof caught fire, embers jumped from roof to roof, spreading the blaze, said Overland Park Fire Department spokesman Jason Rhodes. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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FILE - This 2016 file photo provided by The Xerces Society shows a rusty patched bumblebee in Minnesota. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, officially designated the bee an endangered species. It is the first bee species in the continental U.S. to receive federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. The listing was announced in January and had been scheduled to take effect Feb. 10. But the Trump administration ordered a last-minute review and postponed the listing until Tuesday. (Sarah Foltz Jordan/The Xerces Society via AP, File)
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ADDS THE UPDATE TO THE SECOND SENTENCE - In this Friday, March 3, 2017 photo, the female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" swims in a pool at Sea Turtle Conservation Center n Chonburi Province, Thailand. The 25-year-old sea turtle in Thailand who swallowed nearly a thousand coins tossed by tourists seeking good luck died Tuesday, March 21, 2017, two weeks after having surgery to remove the coins from its stomach. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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In this Friday, March 3, 2017 photo, the female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" swims in a pool at Sea Turtle Conservation Center n Chonburi Province, Thailand. A Thai veterinarian says the 25-year-old sea turtle has slipped into a coma two weeks after it had life-saving surgery to remove 915 coins from its stomach. Tourists seeking good fortune had tossed loose change into a public pond where the turtle lived in Chonburi province, outside Bangkok. Eventually, the money formed a 5-kilogram (11-pound) weight that cracked Bank’s shell. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Citizens Energy Corporation Chairman and President speaks during a news conference in Boston where he announced that Citgo ended the suspension of its free heating oil program for the poor, crediting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for his intervention to help keep the program going. Amid continuing economic turmoil, Venezuela skipped heating oil contributions to the Massachusetts-based nonprofit program during the winter of 2016-2017. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, File)
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Former Marine Erika Butner, with attorney Gloria Allred, said photographs of her and another active-duty female Marine were posted online without their consent. (Associated Press)
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Protesters rallied last year outside the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh after the governor signed a bill that dealt a blow to the LGBT movement by preventing localities from passing anti-discrimination rules. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on PETA's euthanizing of animals by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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This July 16, 2005 photo shows the mostly dry bed of Owens Lake, near Lone Pine, Calif., seen from the flanks of the eastern Sierra Nevada. The lake, which dried up when the Owens River was diverted to the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the early 20th century, is expected to be flooded by 200,000 acre-feet of runoff from a massive snowpack in the Eastern Sierra that is predicted to exceed the capacity of the entire aqueduct system. (AP Photo/John Antczak)
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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert speaks during his annual state of the state address at the Utah State capitol, in Salt Lake City. Herbert has signed 33 more bills on Monday, March 20, 2017, including a measure phasing out a tax credit for installing solar panels that legislators said was eating away at money for public schools. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Stop being paranoid. (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti talks during a news conference on Monday, March 20, 2017 in Los Angeles. Garcetti has declared an emergency due to predictions of overwhelming runoff from the eastern Sierra Nevada snowpack that feeds the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The action Monday is aimed at helping the city Department of Water and Power respond to what it describes as the threat to "the health and safety of the public as well as to protect infrastructure and the environment." (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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Crews battle the Sunshine Fire in the Sunshine canyon area of Boulder, Colo. on Sunday, March 19, 2017. The small wildfire forced people from their homes early Sunday and ignited dead trees that exploded into black plumes of smoke, authorities and residents said. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
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Crews battle the Sunshine Fire in the Sunshine canyon area of Boulder, Colo. on Sunday, March 19, 2017. The small wildfire forced people from their homes early Sunday and ignited dead trees that exploded into black plumes of smoke, authorities and residents said. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
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Lefthand Fire District Chief Steve Lynn walks back to get supplies as crews battle the Sunshine Fire in the Sunshine canyon area of Boulder, Colo. on Sunday, March 19, 2017. The small wildfire forced people from their homes early Sunday and ignited dead trees that exploded into black plumes of smoke, authorities and residents said. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
