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In a March 7, 2017 photo, rancher Greg Gardner, right, surveys some of the damage to his land after the recent wildfire. Gardiner's family has been ranching in Clark County for five generations, having homesteaded in 1885. This week's fires are their ranch's worst natural disaster, killing about 500 cattle. (Mike Pearce/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
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In thisWednesday, March 8, 2017 photo, juvenile coho salmon flop down a chute and into a water tanker truck at the Cascade Fish Hatchery in Cascade Locks, Ore. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, working with the Nez Perce tribe, is trucking 500,000 baby coho salmon 300 miles from the hatchery outside Portland to a remote corner of northeastern Oregon to reintroduce the species to the Lostine River. The area once had plentiful coho, but the species vanished from the Lostine River more than three decades ago. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this Wednesday, March 8, 2017 photo, juvenile coho salmon swim swim in a holding pond at the Cascade Fish Hatchery in Cascade Locks, Ore. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, working with the Nez Perce tribe, is trucking 500,000 baby coho salmon 300 miles from the hatchery outside Portland to a remote corner of northeastern Oregon to reintroduce the species to the Lostine River. The area once had plentiful coho, but the species vanished from the Lostine River more than three decades ago. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017, photo, hundreds of juvenile coho salmon are released into the Lostine River from a water tanker truck. The Nez Perce tribe and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife worked together to restore 500,000 juvenile coho salmon to the Snake River Basin in northeastern Oregon, where they haven't been seen for more than 30 years. The smolts were trucked in nine tankers from a hatchery outside Portland 300 miles inland to the Lostine River in northeastern Oregon. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) **FILE**
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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017 photo, a sign adorns a water tanker truck holding hundreds of baby coho salmon at it arrived at the Lostine River in Wallowa County, Ore., after a 300-mile journey from a hatchery, and prepares to release the fish into the water as a crowd looks on. The Nez Perce tribe and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife worked together to restore 500,000 juvenile coho salmon to the Snake River Basin in northeastern Oregon, where they haven't been seen for more than 30 years. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017 photo, a juvenile coho salmon hides in grass along the banks of the Lostine River in Wallowa County, Ore., just moments after it and hundreds of other coho were released into the Lostine's waters from a water tanker truck that transported the fish 300 miles from a hatchery outside Portland. The Nez Perce tribe and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife worked together to restore 500,000 juvenile coho salmon to the Snake River Basin in northeastern Oregon, where they haven't been seen for more than 30 years. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017 photo, a water tanker truck holding hundreds of baby coho salmon arrives at the Lostine River in Wallowa County, Ore., after a 300-mile journey from a hatchery, and prepares to release the fish into the water as a crowd looks on. The Nez Perce tribe and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife worked together to restore 500,000 juvenile coho salmon to the Snake River Basin in northeastern Oregon, where they haven't been seen for more than 30 years. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017 photo, a display shows the different stages of coho salmon eggs at the Cascade Fish Hatchery in Cascade Locks, Ore. The Nez Perce tribe and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife worked together to restore 500,000 juvenile coho salmon to the Snake River Basin in northeastern Oregon, where they haven't been seen for more than 30 years. The fish were raised at the Cascade Fish Hatchery. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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David Bronson, a driver who trucks coho salmon in water tankers for the state of Oregon, prepares to get into a truck filled with hundreds of baby coho salmon at the Cascade Fish Hatchery in Cascade Locks, Ore., on March 8, 2017. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, working with the Nez Perce tribe, is trucking 500,000 baby coho salmon 300 miles from the hatchery outside Portland to a remote corner of northeastern Oregon to reintroduce the species to the Lostine River. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this Thursday, March 9, 2017 photo, a juvenile coho salmon is held by a fish biologist from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, after 500,000 smolts were released into the Lostine River in northeastern Oregon. The release is part of a project to restore coho salmon to the Snake River Basin, where they haven't been seen for more than 30 years. The fish were trucked from a hatchery outside Portland 300 miles inland to the Lostine River in a joint project by the Nez Perce tribe and state wildlife officials. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
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In this undated photo provided by the Schoenbrunn Zoo a flock of pelicans is pictured at the zoo in Vienna, Austria. The zoo has euthanized its flock of 20 Dalmatian pelicans after examinations showed them infected with bird flu. A statement says the birds were put down Friday, March 10, 2017, a day after the first one was found with the disease. (Daniel Zupanc/Schoenbrunn Zoo via AP)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Sebastian Aho (20), of Finland, shoots the winning goal against New York Rangers goalie Antti Raanta (32), also of Finland, as Rangers' Ryan McDonagh (27) dives to the ice during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, March 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday on CNBC's "Squawk Box" program that he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming. (Associated Press)
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Gray County rancher Ron Ferguson and crew members work to load cattle Tuesday, March 7, 2017 that survived yesterday's wildfires in Gray County, Texas. Ferguson said he lost between 12-14 head of cattle in the fires, several being newborn calves, in the same area were three other ranchers, Cody Crockett, Sydney Wallace and Sloan Everett lost their lives in the wildfires. (Michael Schumacher/The Amarillo Globe News via AP)
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Gray County rancher Ron Ferguson work to load cattle Tuesday, March 7, 2017 that survived a yesterday's wildfires in Gray County, Texas. Ferguson said he lost between 12-14 head of cattle in the fires, several being newborn calves. (Michael Schumacher/The Amarillo Globe News via AP)
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David Crockett, grandfather of the Cody Crockett who died in Monday's wildfires, rides the scorched prairie of Franklin Ranch searching for injured cattle Tuesday, March 7, 2017 after wildfires raced across Gray County, Texas driven by 50 mph winds. Crockett said his grandson and friends got caught in a wild shift the blew the fire back on them, trapping them while herding cattle in a sandy dunes area of the ranch. Cody Crockett, Sydney Wallace and Sloan Everett lost their lives in the wildfires. (Michael Schumacher/The Amarillo Globe News via AP)
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David Crockett, grandfather of the Cody Crockett who died in Monday's wildfires, rides the scorched prairie of Franklin Ranch searching for injured cattle Tuesday, March 7, 2017 after wildfires raced across Gray County, Texas driven by 50 mph winds. Crockett said his grandson and friends got caught in a wild shift the blew the fire back on them, trapping them while herding cattle in a sandy dunes area of the ranch. Cody Crockett, Sydney Wallace and Sloan Everett lost their lives in the wildfires. (Michael Schumacher/The Amarillo Globe News via AP)
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FILE - In this March 24, 2011 file photo, a young evacuee is screened at a shelter for leaked radiation from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo. Doctors say over 180 thyroid cancer cases among Fukushima youngsters found since the nuclear accident cannot be linked to radiation, which they say is not the region’s biggest cause of health problems. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)
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Leverkusen's new coach Tayfun Korkut seen during a press conference of German Bundesliga soccer club Bayer 04 Leverkusen in Leverkusen, Germany, Monday, March 6, 2017. Bayer Leverkusen has hired former Turkey international Tayfun Korkut as coach to rescue something from the club's worst Bundesliga season in 14 years. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP)
