EAGAR — In a way, Thomas Biebighauser is playing God. He stood at a gravely precipice studying his holey handiwork — a 13-foot-deep crater in the grassy plains of Arizona's White Mountains. Soon, it ...

Dozens of rare relict leopard frogs have been set free in their new habitat at the Springs Preserve. Now it’s up to Raymond Saumure to keep them all from croaking. Saumure is the environmental ...

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