MOBILE, Ala. - Federal wildlife officials have designated 6,200 acres in coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle as critical habitat for three endangered beach mouse species. Property owners or developers could be required to survey property for the protected mice before construction or to redesign a project that would harm the nocturnal creatures, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in a ruling Thursday. The acreage, most of it in Florida, includes a mix of federal, state park and private land. The wildlife service estimates the cost of saving the three subspecies of beach mice at $93.4 million to...