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In the late 1980s and early ’90s, William Souder was best known as the film critic at the Twin Cities Reader. But when he wasn’t at the movies, he worked as a stringer for the Washington Post, reporting on local stories of national interest. Although he considered himself very much a generalist, he was a fisherman and hunter and had a strong interest in outdoors topics.

In college, he worked as the science beat reporter for the Minnesota Daily at the University of Minnesota. So in the late 1990s, when he heard that deformed frogs were turning up in ponds across the state, he told his editors there could be a big story here. Schoolchildren on a field trip in Henderson, Minn., had discovered a large number of frogs with missing limbs and other mutations; soon after, deformed frogs were spotted elsewhere around the state. Souder’s investigation of the frog story ended up on the front page of the Post — and he’d just gotten started. His Rachel carson biography wikipedia.