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A visitor to Bonneville Salt Flats poses for photographs near Wendover, Utah, Oct. 8, 2022. The salt has thinned by roughly one-third in the last 60 years, but as climate change drags the West into its third decade of drought, it’s unclear how that affects the seasonal flood patterns the salt flats relies on to maintain its size and footprint. (AP Photo / Rick Bowmer)

Fish biologists release Rio Grande cutthroat trout into a creek near Amalia, N.M., Sept. 15, 2022; the fish were previously rescued from an area affected by wildfire some 750 miles away. Wildlife agencies in the southwestern U.S. consider missions like this essential as climate change brings more frequent and hotter wildfires, fueled by prolonged drought and tree-killing bug infestations. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Alyssa Chubbuck, left, and Dan Bennett embrace while watching the sunset at Guano Point overlooking the Colorado River on the Hualapai reservation in northwestern Arizona, Aug. 15, 2022. Roughly 600,000 tourists visit the reservation annually, but despite the Colorado River bordering more than 100 miles of Hualapai land, the tribe can’t draw from it. The 1922 Colorado River Compact that divided the water among states didn’t include a share for tribes. Now that the river is shrinking, tribes want the federal government to ensure their interests are protected. (AP Photo / John Locher)

Eagle researcher Charles “Chuck” Preston, left, carries a young golden eagle that was temporarily removed from its nest as part of research related to long-term population studies of the birds, near Cody, Wyo., June 15, 2022. Preston and other researchers are trying to find ways to reduce golden eagle deaths from collisions with wind turbines. (AP Photo / Matthew Brown)

A formerly sunken boat sits high and dry along the shoreline of Lake Mead, near Boulder City, Nev., May 10, 2022. The white line of mineral deposits in the distance represents the decades-old high water mark of the reservoir which has since fallen 170 feet to record lows, revealing a virtual graveyard of watercraft and dead fish. (AP Photo / John Locher)

Movie director Roman Polanski talks with newsmen outside the courtroom where he was arraigned in Los Angeles on rape and sex perversion charges, March 30, 1977. He told reporters: ?I am innocent.? (AP Photo)

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors pauses while sitting for The AP Interview in Los Angeles, April 20, 2022. (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong)

FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. The Justice Department says it is gravely concerned about allegations that a high-ranking federal prison official entrusted to end sexual abuse and cover-ups at a women's prison may have taken steps to suppress a recent complaint about staff misconduct. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Public defender Drew Flood, with the nonprofit law firm Metropolitan Public Defender, stands beside files for his active criminal cases, in Portland, Ore., May 5, 2022. Flood, who was hired eight months ago by the firm, is carrying 100 cases and says he sometimes has so many cases he can’t possibly remember details such as what is in the client’s police report or what plea deal is being offered. A post-pandemic glut of delayed cases has exposed shocking constitutional landmines impacting defendants and crime victims alike in Oregon, where an acute shortage of public defenders has led judges to dismiss even some serious cases. (AP Photo / Gillian Flaccus)

Former Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger looks on as the defense asks questions of a witness during the second day of testimony in his rape trial at the Ada County Courthouse, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in Boise, Idaho. (Brian Myrick/The Idaho Press-Tribune via AP, Pool)

Snow hydrologist Anne Nolin, right, measures snow reflectivity at the site of the 2021 Caldor Fire near Twin Bridges, Calif., as raduate student Arielle Koshkin takes notes, April 4, 2022. As wildfires increase in severity and frequency across the West, researchers are studying how charred bark shedding from scorched trees may be contributing to an acceleration of snowmelt, possibly leaving less water flowing in the summer when it's most needed. (AP Photo / Brittany Peterson)

In this image provided by Edwin Broersma, Marathoner Jacky Hunt-Broersma trains at San Tan Mountain Regional Park in San Tan Valley, Ariz., in an Aug. 28, 2021 photo provided by Edwin Broersma. Hunt-Broersma lost her left leg below the knee to a rare form of cancer, but she hasn't let that stop her and is trying to cover the classic 26.2-mile marathon distance at least 102 times in 102 days, which would set a new world record. The Boston Marathon on April 18 is expected to be No. 92 in her streak. (Edwin Broersma via AP)