Austin’s Save Our Springs Alliance and a group of environmental scientists have filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Pedernales River springs salamander as “endangered” or “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act. The action is a direct response to the planned 1,400-acre Mirasol Springs development along Hamilton Pool Road and the Pedernales River that encompasses the amphibious species’ already ­delicate habitat near Dripping Springs’ Hamilton Pool Preserve.

 

Read more from Lina Fisher with The Austin Chronicle here.