For the past year, Tampa Bay 28 reporter Michael Paluska's been trekking deep into the Florida Wildlife Corridor, highlighting efforts by conservation photographers, non-profits, and everyday people to save Florida's last wild places.

A wildlife photographer once told me Florida's beauty is subtle. It "whispers to you" not in a grandiose way like the Rocky Mountains but with simplicity.

That photographer is William Freund, the founder of the fStopFoundation. We profiled Freund and his son Max in 2023, highlighting the duo's remote field camera traps to film, track, and help save the Florida panther.

"This area here, it's so quiet I hear the tree squeaking, the wind rustling through. We're the only ones out here," Tampa Bay 28 reporter Michael Paluska said to Chelsea Wisner.

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