Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission releases thousands of hogs in Big Cypress for people to hunt. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Department of the Interior published first official list of endangered species. Miccosukee State Indian Reservation established. Additional Piper stock released in Everglades National Park 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. Excessive rainfall coupled with water pumped from the farmlands to water conservation areas to Everglades results in deer drowning by the thousands.
Federal government lists the Florida panther as endangered.
More Piper stock released in Everglades National Park. Endangered Species Conservation Act strengthens the 1966 act, authorizes funds for buying habitat, and regulates trade in products from endangered species. 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. 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.