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This undated image provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows Conservation Warden Dave Oginski shown at an unknown location. Oginski has personally helped find at least 12 lost people since starting his job in 2007. He did six search and rescues in the most recent gun deer season alone. (AP Photo/Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
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This Sept. 5, 2013 photo shows the 75-year-old lock and dam in Peoria, Ill. Illinois lawmakers say congressional negotiators are moving toward an agreement on legislation authorizing improvements to shipping channels, flood protections and other waterways projects around the country. Among the Illinois projects are the lock and dam in Peoria and the Olmsted Lock and Dam between Illinois and Kentucky. (AP Photo/Journal Star, Fred Zwicky)
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In this Sept. 5, 2013 photo, Col. Mark Deschenes with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tells Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos about the economic impact of lock and dam operations along the river as they tour the 75-year-old lock and dam in Peoria, Ill. Illinois lawmakers say congressional negotiators are moving toward an agreement on legislation authorizing improvements to shipping channels, flood protections and other waterways projects around the country. Among the Illinois projects are the lock and dam in Peoria and the Olmsted Lock and Dam between Illinois and Kentucky. (AP Photo/Journal Star, Fred Zwicky)
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In this Jan. 27, 2014 photo, Dominic Castanza, an operator at the 75-year-old lock and dam in Peoria, Ill., watches the flow of the Illinois River through the locks. Illinois lawmakers say congressional negotiators are moving toward an agreement on legislation authorizing improvements to shipping channels, flood protections and other waterways projects around the country. Among the Illinois projects are the lock and dam in Peoria and the Olmsted Lock and Dam between Illinois and Kentucky. (AP Photo/Journal Star, Ron Johnson)
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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2006 file photo, Joe Hoagland, left, pushes a canoe through a wild rice bed in White Earth, Minn., as 14-year-old Chris Salazar learns how to harvest the rice by knocking the grain off the stalks with two sticks. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said Wednesday, March 12, 2014 that more data analysis must be done to determine whether it will recommend changes to the state's water quality standards to protect wild rice from sulfates. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Lisa Arteaga strains to see the screen on a parking meter in downtown Reno, Nev. City officials are cutting several inches off parking meter posts that are too tall for short people who strain to read the meter. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Anjeanette Damon) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT
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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2014 photo, people visit the caves at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin, transformed into a dazzling display of ice sculptures by the arctic siege that gripped the Upper Midwest. The popular ice caves on Lake Superior will soon be closed due to ice melt, according to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Superintendent. The caves are usually accessible only by water, but Lake Superior’s rock-solid ice cover is letting people walk to them for the first time since 2009. (AP Photo/Minneapolis Star Tribune, Brian Peterson)
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Philanthropist Howard G. Buffett, the elder son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, is to meet Friday with South Africa officials and conservationists to discuss the slaughter of rhinos. He will deliver a $23.7 million check to aid the conservation effort. (Laura Melo)
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This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 10:45 AM EST shows a late winter storm spreading clouds across most regions east of the Mississippi River with significant snow from the Ohio Valley and eastern Great Lakes into the Northern Appalachians and Northeast US and rain scross the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast US. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday March 11, 2014, water flows through Sand Lake Coulee Creek in the town of Onalaska, Wis., after crews used dynamite to help clear up to five feet of ice. After the blast, crews dug out the ice and created a channel for the water. (AP Photo/The La Crosse Tribune, Chris Hubbach)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday March 11, 2014, water flows through Sand Lake Coulee Creek in the town of Onalaska, Wis., after crews used dynamite to help clear up to five feet of ice. After the blast, crews dug out the ice and created a channel for the water. (AP Photo/The La Crosse Tribune, Chris Hubbach)
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Firefighters continue to work a day after a structure fire in the Mission Bay neighborhood on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in San Francisco. Hundreds of Mission Bay apartment dwellers chased from their homes by a huge fire at a building under construction are fortunate to have homes to return to, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Wednesday, as firefighters put out hot spots and sought to determine the cause of the blaze. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Firefighters continue to work a day after a structure fire in the Mission Bay neighborhood on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in San Francisco. Hundreds of Mission Bay apartment dwellers chased from their homes by a huge fire at a building under construction are fortunate to have homes to return to, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Wednesday, as firefighters put out hot spots and sought to determine the cause of the blaze. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Firefighters continue to work a day after a structure fire in the Mission Bay neighborhood on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in San Francisco. Hundreds of Mission Bay apartment dwellers chased from their homes by a huge fire at a building under construction are fortunate to have homes to return to, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Wednesday, as firefighters put out hot spots and sought to determine the cause of the blaze. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2000 file photo, Ohio Valley Coal Mine employees and safety inspectors enter the Powhatan No. 6 coal mine near Alledonia, Ohio. Eighteen coal facilities in Ohio, including Powhatam No. 6, are operating with expired pollution-discharge permits under an agency where allegations of coal-industry influence arose during a personnel flap last year, an Associated Press review has found. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
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Chicago Bears defensive end Lamarr Houston talks about his Batman earrings after an NFL football news conference where he was introduced as the newest member of the team Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in Lake Forest, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Chicago Bears defensive end Lamarr Houston smiles after being introduced as the newest member of the team during a news conference Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in Lake Forest, ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
