Feds temporarily shelve panther protection request

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:01 p.m. July 3, 2009
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The federal government has shelved a petition by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida to designate panther habitat in a large swath of Collier, Lee and Hendry counties, handing landowners there a reprieve for now.

 

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