Florida human population reaches 1.9 million, more than double the 1920 census.

Steve Hunter in front of ice house in Immokalee with panther he killed in Big Cypress. During his lifetime he killed 28 panthers (Tinsley, 1970).

Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission established as a constitutional agency.

Stanley P. Young and Edward A. Goldman, biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, publish The Puma: Mysterious American Cat.

Florida puma (Felis concolor coryi) listed as 1 of 30 subspecies of Felis concolor in North and South America and described as "A medium-sized, dark subspecies, with pelage short and stiff; skull with broad, flat frontal region; nasals remarkably broad and high arched or expanded upward." (p. 235)

Game Commission restocks deer population in south Florida with whitetail deer imported from Wisconsin and Texas.

Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary established.

Piper stock (Florida panthers with some South American cougar ancestry) released in Everglades National Park.

Florida panther listed under state law as an endangered species.




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