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Feds to Set Critical Habitat for Endangered Frog

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By The Associated Press
Published June 12, 2012 at 10:24 AM CDT

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is designating nearly 6,500 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as critical habitat for the endangered Mississippi gopher frog — the only endangered or threatened frog in the Southeast. About 100 live in the wild, and nearly 900 in zoos.
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