Title: News release: Florida panther dies in fall

Summary: A female Florida panther died in an accident while being captured by biologists with the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission when they tried to replace an old radio transmitter in her collar with a new one. At that time, in 1983, only twenty Florida panthers were alive.

Collection Title: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Papers

Collection No.: ASM0060

Container: Box No. 23; Folder Title: Big Cypress.

Coverage Temporal: 1980-1989

Date: 1983

Genre: Government records

Publisher: Florida. Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission

Repository: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

Series: Series II. Topical Files

Subject: Florida panther

Physical Description: 1 typewritten leaf

Repository: Digital Collections

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