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In this March 19, 2014 photo, bird watcher Douglas W. Vogus scans for birds during in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Vogus, a 47-year-old Akron resident, regularly hikes 13 miles along the trail from Akron north through Cuyahoga Falls, Boston Township and Peninsula to Sagamore Hills Township to identify birds by sight and sound. (Michael Chritton/Akron Beacon Journal)

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In this March 19, 2014 photo, bird watcher Douglas W. Vogus protects his binoculars from the rain during a break at the Beaver Marsh along the towpath trail in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Vogus, a 47-year-old Akron resident, regularly hikes 13 miles along the trail from Akron north through Cuyahoga Falls, Boston Township and Peninsula to Sagamore Hills Township to identify birds by sight and sound. (Michael Chritton/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Justin Giles of Wasilla, Alaska stands guard on a bridge over the Virgin River during a rally in support of Cliven Bundy near Bunkerville, Nev. Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)

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In this April 16, 2014 photo, a tassel of corn grows in a field on Pioneer Hi-Bred International land in Waialua, Hawaii. The nation’s leading corn seed companies have farms in Hawaii, but their fields have become a flash point in a spreading debate over genetic engineering in agriculture. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

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In this April 16, 2014 photo, a tassel of corn grows in a field on Pioneer Hi-Bred International land in Waialua, Hawaii. The nation’s leading corn seed companies have farms in Hawaii, but their fields have become a flash point in a spreading debate over genetic engineering in agriculture. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

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FILE - This March 25, 2014 file photo shows a machine mixing sand and water, left, before it is pumped underground during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Corp. well pad near Mead, Colo. The energy boom is scrambling national politics. Democrats are split between environmentalists and business and labor groups. Some deeply-conservative areas are allying with conservationists against fracking, the technique largely responsible for the surge. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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** FILE ** This March 25, 2014, file photo shows heat from machinery distorts the air as a worker watches over a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Corp. gas well near Mead, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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FILE - This March 25, 2014 file photo shows a worker adjusting hoses during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Corp. gas well, near Mead, Colo. The energy boom is scrambling national politics. Democrats are split between environmentalists and business and labor groups. Some deeply-conservative areas are allying with conservationists against fracking, the technique largely responsible for the surge. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)