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Alligator Alley completed during 60's. Land subdivided and canals dug for Golden Gate Estates.
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Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission releases thousands of hogs in Big Cypress for people to hunt.
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Endangered
Species Preservation Act directs the Secretary of Interior to publish names
of native species threatened with extinction and instructs heads of federal
agencies to protect native wildlife.
More Piper stock released in Everglades National Park.
Excessive
rainfall coupled with water pumped from the farmlands to water conservation
areas to Everglades results in deer drowning by the thousands.
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Working
for the World Wildlife Fund, professional cougar hunter Roy McBride and his
dogs tree an aged Florida panther female in the Fisheating Creek area in Glades
County.
Below: Fisheating Creek
Congress
passes the Endangered Species Act (amended many times, most significantly
in 1978, 1982, and 1988). This act defines an endangered
species as any plant or animal species in danger of extinction throughout
all or a significant portion of its range. A threatened species is one likely
to become an endangered species in the foreseeable future. The act's goal
is to restore all federally listed endangered and threatened species to viable,
self-sustaining populations.
Through the act the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service is authorized to do the following to conserve
endangered and threatened species: restrict take and trafficking, develop
and carry out recovery plans, seek land purchases or exchanges for important
habitat, and provide aid to state conservation agencies.
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The
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission establishes the Florida Panther
Record Clearinghouse.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service appoints panther recovery team.
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