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Where the panther's are: ORMOND BEACH
· Hal Cobb of DeLand has flown choppers for the county mosquito control program for 23 years. In August, he said, he watched a panther in the Tomoka Basin for 20 minutes, only a mile away from the peninsula’s lighted streets.
· Perhaps no one is more convinced of the constant presence of these cats in the basin than Ormond Beach native Keith Beach. “I guess it was back in the mid-’80s,” said Beach. “Me and a friend of mine were off Old Dixie Highway at nighttime and had stopped up in there and heard a big cat screaming.” Beach’s present job at the Halifax Plantation golf course offers occasional reminders of that night. “From time to time, I see panther tracks in the sand traps all through the back and on the dirt road behind the complex,” he said. “Panthers have been around there for a long time.”
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