Grieving dad rips Florida officials for not addressing wildlife concerns after daughter fatally mauled by alligator: Out of control

MIAMI — The grieving dad of a hiker who was mauled to death by an alligator in a river in Florida has slammed wildlife authorities for not doing more to control the beasts and warn of the dangers.Construction worker Brittany Clark, 31, was killed during a trip with her boyfriend, Chance Allison, and roommate, Jayden Hernandez, on Sunday as they went for a swim in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest.Officials have said Allison desperately tried to wrench Clark from the 13-foot reptile’s jaws as it ripped her arms apart.Brittany’s father, Robert Clark, told The Post that the family was already dealing with the death of his mother, Barbara, in California, on Thursday last week, when the vicious reptile attack took his daughter too.He said that Clark and Allison had been planning to start a family together, and she was excited to have found “the one that’s gonna take care of me forever.”Robert Clark, 57, a semi-retired motorcycle technician who previously served in the Navy, called for wildlife authorities in Florida to do more to control alligator populations and alert people to the danger.“There are huge 12-foot and 13-foot alligators there, and they’re letting them out of control,” he said.“The alligator, I understand, might have been on the verge of extinction at one time, but it’s thriving right now, and the state isn’t taking care of it.That’s the only complaint.“I know it’s an alligator state and we’ve always had to deal with alligators, but when is the state going to put some money into dealing with the wildlife?“From what I understand on the news, there was a child that got bit in the area a day or two before my daughter got attacked.”The deadly attack came just one day after an 8-foot-7 alligator bit a boy on the hand at Nelson’s Fish Camp in Umatilla, Marion County, about 60 miles northwest of where Brittany was attacked.The FWC previously said that the alligator was later removed and killed.A 19-ye...