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Marsh Deer, Florida, 1996

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The Fakahatchee Strand encompasses 75,000 acres (30,352.5 hectares) of wilderness that includes a wide variety of flora and fauna including deer. Deer is the preferred food of the Florida panther, which can also be found in the area.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In Big Cypress Country," March 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

Photograph by Raymond Gehman

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