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Michael Adno

Sarasota
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Writer for @nytimes @newyorker @bittersouth and others. James Beard Award Winner from Florida.

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Michael is a writer and photographer born in Florida as a first-generation American to Austrian and South African parents. He contributes toThe New York Times, The Bitter Southerner, and The Surfer's Journal among other magazines and newspapers.

Over the past few years, he was nominated for the Smithsonian’s Artist Research Fellowship in Washington, D.C., a recipient of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Fellowship, and an artist-in-residence at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. In 2018, he …

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Inside the mystery forests of the marshlands

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By Michael Adno, Mac Stone
| National Geographic Verified
When I first saw them, rising from the horizon, the trees in the distance looked like a lime-green stadium. The towering formation represented the telltale signpost for an isolated and almost secret sort of wetland, the remnant of a 6,000-year dance still happening in South Florida.
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A Billionaire, a Scientist, and a Secret in the Florida Everglades

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By Michael Adno
| Economic Hardship Reporting Project
For more than a decade, the foundation was central to almost every decision, appointment, and piece of earth moved in an at least $25 billion Everglades restoration project. The effort, approved by Congress in 2000 as the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project (CERP), is the largest in the world and among the most physically and politically complex, too.
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A Billionaire, a Scientist, and a Secret in the Florida Everglades

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By Michael Adno
| Yahoo Verified
Nothing could prepare Dr. Thomas Van Lent, one of Florida’s most celebrated scientists, for jail. Before he turned himself in, he bought glasses, laceless shoes, and pants that sat on his hips without a belt. Early on July 17, Van Lent took the Metrorail with his wife to the Miami-Dade County Courthouse. Then, he walked inside to a courtroom where a bailiff placed him in handcuffs as his family watched from the jury box.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Seriously, working on a story about the restoration of the Everglades.

What's your favorite social network?

Instagram without a doubt.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

I was hoping you could offer me some.