WMNF's Pete Gallagher's Links to Pertinent Stories Keep Oil
Drilling Out of Florida Panther Habitat. Please, send a letter
asking Miami's mayor to make sure this absurd and destructive
idea to allow new oil operations in the Big Cypress National
Preserve remains completely off the table. Click Here for form
letter. Officials try to solve major deer decline. The
population density of the white-tailed deer in the Stairsteps
unit's zones 3 and 4 has been in decline going back to 2001.
Click Here for story. A new warning system should decrease
Florida panther road-kill deaths. Click Here for story. Where
Have All The Bobcats Gone? For the past dozen years, the
National Park Service has been tracking mountain lions, coyotes
and bobcats in the Santa Monica Mountains to study how these
animals are adapting to the urban environment, gathering data on
genetics, diet, movements, litter size, ranges, and mortality
rates. New research points to rat poison as a culprit in the
animals' decline. Click here for story. A biol