Endangered Species Has No Habitat in Louisiana
By Jeff Zeringue, Louisiana Forestry Association
Merriam-Webster defines habitat as “the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.” But what if a place is no longer an environment that is hospitable to a particular animal? Such is the case of the dusky gopher frog, an endangered species that recently was the center of a federal lawsuit that threatened the development of more than 1,500 acres in Southeast Louisiana.