Fish and Wildlife Service, then he transferred to the U.S. Geological Survey in 1984, where he remained until his retirement in 2007.
He, along with R. Bruce Bury and Garry Fellers were the first to suggest widespread amphibian declines were progressing.
[5] In addition to his research contributions, in 2003 he provided critical testimony about buffer zones and the Flatwoods Salamander on behalf of the Sierra Club.
Fish and Wildlife Service after he wrote a letter on official stationery to Dominique, a Washington D.C. French restaurant, asking the restaurant to stop offering a dish made from Pennsylvania timber rattler because the species was in danger of becoming extinct.
The letter became public after being leaked to a gossip column in the Washington Star, and Dodd was fired on October 11, 1979.