An Oregon spotted frog in Deschutes County, OR. A U.S. Forest Service plan to expand cattle grazing in southern Oregon at the risk of extirpating imperiled Oregon spotted frogs landed at the Ninth Circuit as challengers called into question whether the service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife adequately considered how climate change and grazing would affect the protected species when approving the project.
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