BY FROMA HARROP The dusky gopher frog is a tiny thing. Once thriving in the longleaf pine forests of the South, only about 250 remain in the wild, in Mississippi. The endangered frog could soon disappear forever if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against a plan to preserve breeding ponds in Louisiana. The dispute centers on the Endangered Species Act. Since its enactment in 1973, the law has pulled numerous native animals and plants from […]
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