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Hoppie, center, the sea lion rescued from an almond orchard, joins Eugene, left, and Fenimore, right, during their release back to the wild at Chimney Rock Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Hoppie, a male California seal lion pup treated for malnutrition and skin mites at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif, was rescued after being found at the Mape's Ranch almond orchard in Modesto, Calif on March 31. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Hoppie, left, the sea lion rescued from an almond orchard follows Eugene, right, while being released back to the wild at Chimney Rock Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Hoppie, a male California seal lion pup treated for malnutrition and skin mites at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif, was rescued after being found at the Mape's Ranch almond orchard in Modesto, Calif on March 31. Two other sea lions were released along with Hoppie. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Hoppie, the sea lion rescued from an almond orchard, looks out of his carrier before being released back to the wild at Chimney Rock Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Hoppie, a male California seal lion pup treated for malnutrition and skin mites at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., was rescued after being found at the Mape's Ranch almond orchard in Modesto, Calif on March 31. Two other sea lions were released along with Hoppie. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Hoppie, left, the sea lion rescued from an almond orchard, plays with Eugene, right, during their release back to the wild at Chimney Rock Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Hoppie, a male California seal lion pup treated for malnutrition and skin mites at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., was rescued after being found at the Mape's Ranch almond orchard in Modesto, Calif on March 31. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Hoppie, the sea lion rescued from an almond orchard, heads for the surf during his release back to the wild at Chimney Rock Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Hoppie, a male California seal lion pup treated for malnutrition and skin mites at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., was rescued after being found at the Mape's Ranch almond orchard in Modesto, Calif on March 31. Two other sea lions were released along with Hoppie. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Hoppie, left, the sea lion rescued from an almond orchard, follows Eugene, right, during their release back to the wild at Chimney Rock Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Hoppie, a male California seal lion pup treated for malnutrition and skin mites at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., was rescued after being found at the Mape's Ranch almond orchard in Modesto, Calif on March 31. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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FILE - In this April 27, 2010 file photo, water diverted from East Maui runs down a ditch toward sugar cane fields at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. plantation in Puunene, Hawaii. Sugar plantations began diverting water from the streams running through the lush hills and valleys of East Maui in 1876. Global warming will likely stress fresh water supplies in Hawaii and other Pacific islands, a national report on climate change said Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2013, file photo, sandbags are piled up in front of properties damaged by severe beach erosion in the Rocky Point neighborhood of Oahu's North Shore in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Global warming will likely stress fresh water supplies in Hawaii and other Pacific islands, a national report on climate change said Tuesday, May 6, 2014. In Hawaii, rising sea levels are expected to push salt water into aquifers that store the state's drinking water. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File) (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2011, file photo, the remains of a carp is seen on the lake dried out lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate Assessment concluded Tuesday. The report emphasizes how warming and its all-too-wild weather are changing daily lives, even using the phrase "climate disruption" as another way of saying global warming. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate Assessment concluded Tuesday. The report emphasizes how warming and its all-too-wild weather are changing daily lives, even using the phrase "climate disruption" as another way of saying global warming. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Tony Leif, director of the Division of Wildlife, speaks to the legislative Rules Review Committee on May 6, 2014, at the Capitol building in Pierre, S.D. He says refuges are not as important for wildlife management as once thought. (AP Photo/Nora Hertel)
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In this undated photo provided by the Oregon Coast Aquarium, A sunflower star with lesions indicating the two affected arms is seen. A disease that has been killing starfish on the West Coast has made its first major appearance in Oregon. Oregon Coast Aquarium divers at the entrance to Yaquina Bay at Newport last month found starfish with "sea star wasting disease" that causes their arms to fall off and turn to goo.(AP Photo/Oregon Coast Aquarium)
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In this undated photo provided by the Oregon Coast Aquarium, an afflicted sea star's arm, also know as a ray, walks away from its body. A disease that has been killing starfish on the West Coast has made its first major appearance in Oregon. Oregon Coast Aquarium divers at the entrance to Yaquina Bay at Newport last month found starfish with "sea star wasting disease" that causes their arms to fall off and turn to goo.(AP Photo/Oregon Coast Aquarium)
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In this undated photo provided by the Oregon Coast Aquarium, a curled ochre star shows intermediate signs of wasting disease. A disease that has been killing starfish on the West Coast has made its first major appearance in Oregon. Oregon Coast Aquarium divers at the entrance to Yaquina Bay at Newport last month found starfish with "sea star wasting disease" that causes their arms to fall off and turn to goo.(AP Photo/Oregon Coast Aquarium)
