Butterfly on a bomb range: Endangered Species Act at work

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina --- In the unlikely setting of the world's most populated military installation, amid all the regimented chaos, you'll find the Endangered Species Act at work. There, as a 400-pound explosive resounds in the distance, a tiny St. Francis Satyr butterfly flits among the splotchy leaves, ready to lay as many as 100 eggs. At one point, this brown and frankly dull-looking butterfly could be found in only one place on Earth: Fort Bragg's artillery range. Now, thanks in great measure to the 46-year-old federal act, they are found in eight more places --- though all of them are on other parts of the Army base. And if all goes well, biologists will have just seede...

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