The Advocate’s Nov. 28 analysis of the recent unanimous Supreme Court decision in the St. Tammany Parrish private property rights dispute comes close but misses the mark. The editors, unfortunately, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated more than 1,500 acres in St. Tammany Parish as critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog, despite the protestations of the family that owns the land ...

A critically endangered frog that was on the verge of extinction not long ago has made a comeback, thanks to scientists. The dusky gopher frog, native to Mississippi and known for its snore-like call, ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a case concerning the United States Fish and Wildlife Services designation of approximately 1,600 privately owned acres in Louisiana as a "critical ...

Sep. 10—TIFTON — South Georgians are accustomed to spotting gopher tortoises slowly navigating the area landscape. But gopher frogs have been slowly disappearing from southern pinelands for decades.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that an appeals court must take a fresh look at whether the Fish and Wildlife Service had gone too far in its attempt to protect an ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (August 30, 2021) — The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) and Riverbanks Zoo are collaborating on a “Head Start” program to raise and release the state-endangered gopher frog ...

Dusky gopher frogs are adorably winsome with big eyes, round stomachs and a call that sounds like a post-dinner snore—and they’re one of the rarest amphibians in the United States. Habitat loss, ...

BERKELEY COUNTY — Beyond a locked gate and an old logging road lies Sunset Pond — an ephemeral oasis known to South Carolina scientists as the last stronghold of the Carolina gopher frog. The name ...

The last days of December may seem like an inappropriate time to spotlight frogs, especially when many of the various species are locked under the ice in winter freezes, but politics know no rhyme or ...