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The dusky gopher frog—a species that has not been seen in the state for more than 50 years.
Federal bureaucrats laid claim to this land .. while acknowledging that the property is unsuitable as frog habitat and plays no role in the conservation of the frog—and likely never will.
The landowners here are victims of a shocking abuse of federal power.. PLF Senior Attorney Mark Miller. “If bureaucrats can label any area as protected habitat, even where the species does not exist and where the property can’t be used for the species’ conservation, there is no limit to the land that federal regulators can grab.”