US West

Dorene Giacopini holds a portrait of her mother Primetta Giacopini while posing for a photo at her home in Richmond, Calif., Sept. 27, 2021. Primetta Giacopini was 2 years old when she lost her mother to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. In September 2021, at age 105, she lost her own life to COVID-19. For more than a century she lived a rich and varied life, often amid hardship. (AP Photo / Josh Edelson)

Rihanna attends her Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3 premiere at the Glasshouses on in New York, Sept. 22, 2021. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses reporters at the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021, after beating back the recall attempt that aimed to remove him from office. The rare, late-summer election emerged as a national battlefront on issues from COVID-19 restrictions to climate change. (AP Photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

Phil Fine pulls a carrot from one of his fields in the North Unit Irrigation District after harvesting the vegetable’s seeds, near Madras, Ore., Aug. 31, 2021. Oregon farmers, who grow 60% of the world’s carrot seed, have been without irrigation water for weeks as drought ravages the American West. But just down the road, sprinklers douse crops and cattle graze in green pastures. The stark contrast is a consequence of the West's arcane water law, and it’s brought new urgency to efforts to share the resource along Oregon’s Deschutes River. (AP Photo / Nathan Howard)

A marijuana grow is seen on Sept. 2, 2021, in an aerial photo taken by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office the day officers raided the site in the community of Alfalfa, Ore. On the 30-acre property in the high desert they found 49 greenhouses containing almost 10,000 marijuana plants and a complex watering system with several 15,000-20,000 gallon cisterns. (Deschutes County Sheriff Via AP)

Firefighters take a break while setting a backfire to prevent the Caldor Fire from spreading near South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A sign advertising a new elementary school stands along a main street in Somerton, Ariz., Aug. 19, 2021. The overwhelmingly Hispanic community has grown enough over the last decade that it’s building a new elementary school, and the city manager cited 853 new homes over the past decade as evidence of growth. But the Census Bureau says Somerton actually lost 90 residents during the that time, putting its official population at 14,197 people, not the 20,000 that the mayor expected. (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong)

A helicopter herds wild horses during a roundup on near U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, July 14, 2021. Federal land managers are increasing the number of horses removed from the range this year during a historic drought. They say it’s necessary to protect the parched land and the animals themselves, but wild-horse advocates accuse them of using the conditions as an excuse to move out the iconic animals to preserve cattle grazing. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

This undated photo provided by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control shows a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination card. A Northern California bar owner was arrested on suspicion of selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to several undercover state agents for $20 each. After receiving a tip, undercover agents with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control went to Old Corner Saloon in the city of Clements several times in April and bought fake laminated vaccination cards, officials said. (California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control via AP)

A burned roadside sign says, “Please Prevent Fires, Mahalo,” in Waimea, Hawaii, Aug. 5, 2021. The region of Hawaii’s Big Island was scorched by the state’s largest recorded wildfire. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Misty Buckley carries dirty water from her animals’ pens to water plants in her front yard, in Klamath Falls, Ore., July 24, 2021. The family’s house well ran dry in May following historic drought in southern Oregon. Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in the area near the Oregon-California border where the effects of drought have taken a particularly dramatic toll. (AP Photo / Nathan Howard)

Pink water washes over a salt crust along the receding edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, May 4, 2021. The lake has been shrinking for years, and its levels are expected to hit a 170-year low in 2021 as drought grips the American West. (AP Photo / Rick Bowmer)