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. 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. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Department of the Interior published first official list of endangered species.
Federal government lists the Florida panther as endangered.
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. The act's goal is to restore all federally listed endangered and threatened species to viable, self-sustaining populations. The name Big Cypress does not refer to the size of the trees, but to the vast area covered by them.