After passing a law to conserve wildlife corridors, the state has begun to acquire and protect land where iconic creatures such as Florida panthers roam
Doyle Carlton III , his son Dale Carlton , and ranch hand Brian Alexy move cattle across a flooded pasture on Horse Creek Ranch. Its recent approval as a conservation easement provides an alternative to development and allows ranching to continue.
“The owners have done a phenomenal job managing this property—it’s almost jaw-dropping that this land exists,” Morris says, speaking of the area’s pine flatwoods, bottomland forests, and prairies. Many of the properties provide habitat and mobility for Florida panthers, an endangered population of mountain lions that almost went extinct by the 1970s, which have rebounded and now number around 200 individuals. For much of the last generation, the big cats have been mostly confined to areas south of the Caloosahatchee River, a waterway that flows west from Lake Okeechobee toward the Fort Myers area.
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