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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 26, 2014, AND THEREAFTER- In this Aug. 10, 2011 photo taken and provided by John Lyons, fisheries research scientist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, a group of scientists in Wisconsin cast nets in Middle Kimball Lake in Minong, Wis. Scientists in Wisconsin and Minnesota are studying the remaining populations of cisco, a fish that scientists and anglers say leads to bigger musky and walleye. The fish are native to the area and are under threat from climate change. (AP Photo/Courtesy of The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, John Lyons)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 26, 2014, AND THEREAFTER- This November 2000 photo taken by John Lyons, fisheries research scientist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, shows a cicso captured in Big Green Lake in Green Lake, Wis. Scientists in Wisconsin and Minnesota are studying the remaining populations of cisco, a fish that scientists and anglers say leads to bigger musky and walleye. The fish are native to the area and are under threat from climate change. (AP Photo/Courtesy of The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, John Lyons)
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Benson Bell, executive director for Consumer and Environmental Protection, left, and Adam Watson, program coordinator, weigh a bag of hemp seed Friday, May 23, 2014 at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture in Frankfort. Hemp seeds that produced a drawn-out legal fight were freed from confinement and delivered Friday to Kentucky's Agriculture Department for experimental plantings, marking a limited comeback for the non-intoxicating cousin of marijuana. The seeds from Italy that drew so much suspicion from federal drug officials were unceremoniously unloaded from a UPS truck and then weighed by state agriculture officials. The shipment featuring 13 seed varieties came in at 286 pounds. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, James Crisp)
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Transit moves on the Interstate 405, with new $1.1 billion in improvements which includes higher-capacity on- and off-ramps and bridges that meet seismic standards seen from the Getty Center in Los Angeles Friday, May. 23, 2014. Los Angeles commuters who dealt with traffic tie-ups, lane re-routings and warnings over gridlock events dubbed "Carmageddon" and "Jamzilla" have been rewarded with a new 10-mile carpool lane on northbound Interstate 405. The 405 carries about 300,000 vehicles a day, a number that officials expect to grow by nearly 50 percent by 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Transit moves on the Interstate 405 seen from the Getty Center in Los Angeles Friday, May. 23, 2014. Los Angeles commuters who dealt with traffic tie-ups, lane re-routings and warnings over gridlock events dubbed "Carmageddon" and "Jamzilla" have been rewarded with a new 10-mile carpool lane on northbound Interstate 405. The 405 carries about 300,000 vehicles a day, a number that officials expect to grow by nearly 50 percent by 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Haze from smoke covers a highway in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Residents in Anchorage woke up Thursday to a smokey haze and the smell of a campfire over the state's largest city. The smoke is from wildfires burning on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
