BUTLER, Ga. - The first day of February, John Jensen peered into the murk of a pond that was recently nothing but a mud flat. Last spring it dried up in Georgia's record drought, stranding the tadpoles of rare gopher frogs.

The first day of February, John Jensen peered into the murk of a pond that was recently nothing but a mud flat. Last spring it dried up in Georgia's record drought, stranding the tadpoles of rare gopher frogs.