WTC security and emergency response newspaper article

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document *DWSIaN protessor auu berpatolegist нIcA Seigel'says #'s a coin fllp?* whether the Mississippi gopher irog. rigni, a rare amphibian on the aöge of extinction, will SurviVB. Would-Be Saviors A few people fight to preserve a rare creature Of The and its shrinking habitat Gopher, Frog By David Köhn "It's one of tae ranest amj ns in-tt With little money and-until recently, SYOU DRIVE NORTE from Gulfoort, Miss., port, Seigel and a few others have been trying des on Highway 49, past toe Grand Casino, past perately to keep the frog from disappearing altogeth- a Barnes & Noble, a Kmart and a Home er. So far they have succeeded, but threats abonnd Depot, you come after a few miles to a Until recently, the frog, caught in the middle of two-lane county road. If you make a ture, bureaucratic dispute over funding, was not even list vand then, in a little while, another onto a dirt ed 'as an endangered species. But a deal last month 'Toad, you come soon enough to a small body of between environmental groups and the Bush acmin- water called Glen's Pond. In the patch of forest istration will Jlikely add the frog to the list, giving it Garound the pond, in stumps, root holes and a measure of extra protection.. who kaows what other concealments, live approximate Seigel, who is a professor at Southeast Louisiane ly 86 Mississippi gopher frogs; the last on the planet. :Unyersity in Hammond, 90 miles west of Glens The trog, about the size e a handbeu, wita dark Pond; and his colleagues have gone to extreme Ereen s4th aad brown goots as on t extinction lengtas to protect the frog. This spring, faced wita a *Ta sayits a core fipwberberst allsurnyer said severe drought that threatened to dry yp the ponc Rich Seigel; a herpetologist wao stadies the frog. three-weeks in Mas Naniggal Guan Newsday 9.18.01 Paco 1 of5 tanker NYC-WTC_000152249