“These Texas natives deserve a fighting chance.”
– Center for Biological Diversity’s Collette Adkins Giese, on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal to add four Austin-area salamander species to the endangered list
This article appears in August 24 • 2012.
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