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Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge

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Address: 3860 Tollgate Blvd, Suite 300
Naples, FL 34114
Phone: 239-353-8442;
Fax: 239-353-8640;
Web: www.fws.gov/floridapanther
Established: 1989.
Location: 20 miles east of Naples, Florida.
Special Features: Refuge is situated in the upper segment of the Fakahatchee Strand of the Big Cypress Swamp. In any given month, 5-11 pathers use the refuge area to den, hunt, and travel through.
Habitats: 26,400 acres of cypress and mixed swamp forests, pine forests, hardwood hammock forests, and prairies, marshes, and sloughs. Permanent and seasonal wetlands comprise approximately 70% of the refuge acreage.
Access: Restricted to designated trails in one portion of the refuge.
Wild life: Florida panther, Florida black bear, Big Cypress fox squirrel, American alligator, eastern indigo snake. Also provides habitat for Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle, striped mud turtle, Kemp's ridley sea turtle, wild turkey and white-tailed deer.

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Wildfires still smoldered in sections of Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge where smoke wafted over the cypress groves and saw palmettos.

Cat fight: the foreclosure crisis has walloped Florida's Gulf Coast, ... by Halperin, Alex / Earth Island Journal

By 1990, the cats had vanished from every place except Florida, says Larry Richardson, a biologist at the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge.

Panthers in Peril: with help from their cat relatives, the endangered ... by Bryner, Jeanna / Science World

This agreement, said President Bush at a 30 May 2002 news conference, will protect about 765,000 acres in the Everglades, Big Cypress National Preserve, the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, and Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge from drilling or spills related to drilling.

Environmental buyouts: protection at a price by Fields, Scott / Environmental Health Perspectives

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