The current Florida Wildlife Commissioners are nearly all developers and builders............So it is miraculous that they reversed course this week and did not push though a plan to kill off any of the 100 or so adult Pumas who are confined to Collier/Lee/Hendry County, a territory between Fort Lauderdale and Naples north of Alligator Alley...........The FWC put the onus to create more Puma territory back on the USFW folks, who clearly have no stomach for following through on the original management plan that calls for two more Puma populations in Central or North Florida............At least for now, the one Commissioner who wanted the Puma population "slashed and burned"(Leisa Priddy — who owns a 9,300-acre cattle ranch not far from the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge in Immokalee) has been stymied

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Florida’s panther out of

 cross-hairs for now. 

But its long-term 

prospects are a

 question mark