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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 25, 1998 file photo, Enrique Lagunas digs a trench to redirect water toward a street in Laguna Beach, Calif. after heavy rains from an El Nino storm hit Southern California. On Thursday, March 6, 2014, the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric and Administration announced their prediction of an El Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean in 2014 that will change weather worldwide. It is expected to trigger fewer Atlantic hurricanes, more rain next winter for drought-struck California and southern states and even cause a milder winter for the nation's cold-struck northern tier next year, meteorologists say. For the world it can mean an even hotter year coming up and food crop losses. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Bruce Chambers)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. EST.- Steve Keto, manager of Western Michigan University's Natural Areas and Preserves explains the method of measuring a tree, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, at the Howard Street woods in Kalamazoo, Mich. There are more three dwarf hackberry trees in the area have over 11 inches of Diameter at breast height. About 29 dwarf hackberry trees are being discovered in the woods north of Howard Street between Stadium Drive and Oakland Drive. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette, Junfu Han)
