{
    "byline": "By Joshua Partlow",
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    "excerpt": "On the day of the kidnapping, the campground at Gumboot Lake happened to be nearly empty, so Joseph Charles Henrichsen was one of the only people to see the two Forest Service biologists pull up in their pickup truck. Federal employees didn\u2019t visit all that much\u2014campers who\u2019d been coming to the small alpine lake for years told me they\u2019d never seen a ranger on patrol in these Northern California woods. But some of the regulars had noticed the \u201cfrog people,\u201d as one called them, quietly collecting their specimens the previous summer. These particular biologists, both women, were there to survey the Cascades frog, whose well-being can help signal the health of the overall ecosystem.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 19225,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "The Growing Lawlessness in California\u2019s Forests"
}