Environment

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In this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 photo, Bond Starker poses for a photograph featuring square-shaped samples of the different trees his company harvests in Philomath, Ore. The lineup includes Oregon White Oak, Golden Chinquapin, Ponderosa Pine, Western Red Cedar, Cotton Wood, Big Leaf Maple, Pacific Madrone, Western Hemlock, Red Alder, Alaska Cedar, Douglas Fir, and Pacific Yew. Starker is retiring as CEO of Starker Forests, the Philomath-based timber company founded by his grandfather more than 80 years ago. (Godofredo Vasquez/Albany Democrat-Herald via AP)

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Los Angles Clippers guard Austin Rivers (25) is escorted off the court after being ejected during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/George Bridges)

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Los Angles Clippers guard Austin Rivers (25) is escorted off the court after being ejected during the firt half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/George Bridges)

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Brian Murray of Lucas Tree Experts hauls away giant tree branches cut by Don Libby as they clean up limbs and debris causing downed wires along Wood Road Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 in Gorham, Maine. Nearby residents are without power as a result of the heavy wet snow that fell overnight. (Jill Brady/Portland Press Herald via AP)

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Justin Voight of On Target Utility works to restore power to a home along Main St. in Cumberland, Maine, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016. The most powerful nor'easter in nearly two years brought heavy snow, powerful winds and even thunder and lightning to northern New England, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark Friday and burying some towns under 2 feet of snow. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald via AP)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 file photo, people stand on a hill as smoke and flames rise from amidst tents, after fires were started in the makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle" near Calais, northern France. Firefighters have doused several dozen fires set by migrants as they left the camp where they had been living. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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FILE – In this April 4, 2015, file photo, Kenny Hetrick, owner of Tiger Ridge Exotics, holds stuffed toy animals as he speaks to visitors at an Easter egg hunt fundraiser in Stony Ridge, Ohio. Hetrick, who is fighting the state for the return of his tigers and other exotic animals, will be allowed to see some of the animals. A state appeals court said the owner and his veterinarian will be allowed to examine the animals that were sent to a South Dakota sanctuary and later removed from there because of neglect. (AP Photo/Mike Householder, File)

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White House Land Mines Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Devastating regulations and market shifts to more economical energy sources have reduced the number of coal miners in the U.S. to about 54,000, according to the latest Labor Department figures. (Associated Press)

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Protesters demonstrate against the new Bears Ear National Monument in Montecello, Utah, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. President Barack Obama expanded his environmental legacy in the final days of his presidency with national monument designations on lands in Utah and Nevada that have become flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West. The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah will cover over 1 million acres in the Four Corners region, the White House announced Wednesday. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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Lee Miller, Port Carbon, Pa., cuts through the snow on Coal Street in Port Carbon, Pa., on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. (Jacqueline Dormer/Republican-Herald via AP)

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Protesters demonstrate against the new Bears Ear National Monument in Montecello, Utah, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. President Barack Obama expanded his environmental legacy in the final days of his presidency with national monument designations on lands in Utah and Nevada that have become flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West. The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah will cover over 1 million acres in the Four Corners region, the White House announced Wednesday. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) **FILE**

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In this Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016 photo, bricks are falling off the exterior wall of a house sitting over a sinkhole, in Fraser, Mich. The major sinkhole disrupted the holiday season in Fraser, a Detroit suburb of roughly 14,500 people about 15 miles north of downtown and five miles west of the Great Lakes waterway of Lake St. Clair. Roads have been closed and about two dozen homes evacuated after the underground sewer collapse on Christmas Eve. Nobody has been injured but inconveniences are many as crews begin a months-long process of assessing the damage, making repairs and determining the cause. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP)

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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, photo Susan Frank pets one of her mulefoot pigs at Dogpatch Farm in Washington, Maine. The American mulefoot hog was once the rarest of all U.S. livestock breeds, and they’re still listed as critically rare by the Livestock Conservancy. There are fewer than 500 registered, purebred, breeding mulefoots. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, three-day-old mulefoot piglets nuzzle their mother at Dogpatch Farm in Washington, Maine. The American mulefoot hog was once the rarest of all U.S. livestock breeds, and they’re still listed as critically rare by the Livestock Conservancy. There are fewer than 500 registered, purebred, breeding mulefoots. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, photo Susan Frank prepares to feed her mulefoot pigs at Dogpatch Farm in Washington, Maine. The rare breed enjoys open pasture and woodland at the small farm in rural Maine. Frank says it may sound counterintuitive, but the way to save declining breeds of livestock is to get people to eat them, thereby increasing demand for them. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Wake Forest's John Collins has his shot blocked by Jarquez Smith with some help from Jonathan Isaac, right, in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

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FILE - This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows Lockhart Basin, south of the Colorado River, within the boundary of the Bears Ears region in southeastern Utah. President Barack Obama designated two national monuments Wednesday, Dec. 28, at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

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FILE - This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. President Barack Obama designated two national monuments Wednesday, Dec. 28, at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)