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Lone Rock land management crew member Alferdo Martinez plants two-year-old Douglas fir seedlings in a section of the Callahan Mountains west of Roseburg, Ore. on Friday Jan. 27. 2017. The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians teamed up with Lone Rock Timber Management Company to create the sole proposal to buy 82,500 acres of the Elliott State Forest from the state of Oregon. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)
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Lone Rock land management crew member Cristobal Carrion plants two-year-old Douglas fir seedlings in a section of the Callahan Mountains west of Roseburg, Ore. on Friday Jan. 27, 2017. The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians teamed up with Lone Rock Timber Management Company to create the sole proposal to buy 82,500 acres of the Elliott State Forest from the state of Oregon. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)
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Anaheim Ducks center Rickard Rakell (67) is pursued by Florida Panthers center Colton Sceviour (7) as he takes the puck down the ice during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Florida Panthers defenseman Keith Yandle flings a plastic rat thrown on the ice by fans after the Panthers defeated the Anaheim Ducks 2-1, during an NHL hockey game, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Jaccob Slavin (74) and Edmonton Oilers' Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) chase the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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New Mexico state Sen. Benny Shendo, D-Jemez Pueblo, at podium, addresses a gathering of leaders from the state's 23 Native American tribes and pueblos in the Statehouse in Santa Fe on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. The flag of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe flew in the capital as New Mexico tribes expressed solidarity with opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota in a letter to President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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An Orange Sewer and Water Authority employee look at the water break damage in Chapel Hill, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in N.C., officials in Chapel Hill are asking everybody to stop using water after the water main break and a low tank levels. Bottled water is being rushed to student dorms at North Carolina’s flagship public university and nearby nursing homes after a series of malfunctions shut down the municipal water system. Restaurants, schools in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill closed Friday after a water treatment plant was shut down by a miscue in chemical treatment and a water main broke. (Bernard Thomas/The Herald-Sun via AP)
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FILE - This Jan. 23, 2017 file photo shows the Delaware River Bridge in Bristol, Pa. Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say the major bridge linking the Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes is expected to remain closed for repairs for at least two more months, and they are still trying to determine why one of its steel trusses fractured. The turnpike commission told The Associated Press on Friday, Feb. 3 that the Interstate 276 span over the Delaware River could reopen in early April if a repair plan goes smoothly. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - This Jan. 23, 2017 file photo shows the Delaware River Bridge in Bristol, Pa. Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say the major bridge linking the Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes is expected to remain closed for repairs for at least two more months, and they are still trying to determine why one of its steel trusses fractured. The turnpike commission told The Associated Press on Friday, Feb. 3 that the Interstate 276 span over the Delaware River could reopen in early April if a repair plan goes smoothly. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Tim Kasal, left, helps an unidentified ODOT worker spread gravel under his vehicle after he and a handful of other drivers slid on a freeway offramp, causing a pileup in Portland, Ore., Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Freezing rain has caused many crashes in the Portland and Columbia River Gorge areas. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Tim Kasal stands amidst damaged cars after he was involved in a multi-vehicle pileup on an icy freeway offramp in Portland, Ore., Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Freezing rain has caused many crashes in the Portland and Columbia River Gorge areas. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2011 file photo, Cheryl LaFleur of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) speaks in Omaha, Neb. Major natural gas pipeline projects along the East Coast and Midwest face uncertainty as the federal agency that oversees the work loses a commissioner and will be unable to decide on projects for the first months of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump named LaFleur to lead the panel last week. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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In this handout photo provided by the Swedish Government, Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lovin, left, signs a proposal for the Scandinavian country's new climate law in Stockholm, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister has posted on Facebook an all-woman photo including herself signing a proposal for the Scandinavian country's new climate law - a photo many online commentators have taken as a direct swipe at Donald Trump. (Johan Schiff/Swedish Government via AP)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, agriculture regulators from seven different states and Guam tour a Denver marijuana growing warehouse on a tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. The department is opening up its marijuana knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Denver marijuana grower Tim Cullen, left, shows young marijuana clones to out-of-state agriculture officials on a grow warehouse tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. Colorado's Agriculture Department is opening up its marijuana knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
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An 1895 photo shows the Bogoslof Island seen from the northwest in Alaska. Bogoslof Island or Agasagook Island is the summit of a submarine stratovolcano located along the southern edge of the Bering Sea, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Unalaska Island of the Aleutian Island chain. Bogoslof Volcano erupted late Monday night, Jan. 30, 2017, and its ash cloud reached 25,000 feet high. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof was quieting down Tuesday. (USGS Denver Library Photographic Collection via AP)
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In this May 10, 1994, aerial photo provided by Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey shows the Bogoslof Island looking south. Trace amounts of ash and the smell of sulfur reached an Alaska city 61 miles away after the latest eruption of Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian Islands. Bogoslof Volcano erupted late Monday night, Jan. 30, 2017, and its ash cloud reached 25,000 feet high. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof was quieting down Tuesday. (T. Keith/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey via AP)
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This March 9, 2016 photo shows bison captured from Yellowstone National Park being held in a government research facility near Corwin Springs, Mont. A deal disclosed Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, will allow the mass slaughter of hundreds of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indian tribes want to start new herds. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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This March 9, 2016 photo shows a bison from Yellowstone National Park being held for shipment to slaughter near Gardiner, Mont. A deal disclosed Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, will allow the mass slaughter of hundreds of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indian tribes want to start new herds. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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It's an emergency! (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)
