Feds Riding Casper the Ghost Frog Over Property Rights?

By Paul R. Baier, Judge Henry A. Politz Professor of Law, Louisiana State University, published on AgWeb.com

After the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a proposed critical habitat rule (76 Fed. Reg. 59774) for the dusky gopher frog with a bull's-eye on 1,500 tree farm acres belonging to Poitevent, the Louisiana landowner took his fight into the legal system.