Nicholas G.
Recognized as a Guardian of the Everglades, he is also a member of the National Izaak Walton League of America Hall of Fame, Florida Wildlife Federation Hall of Fame, and recipient of the National Wildlife Federation Special Conservation Award for a lifetime of dedication to the preservation and protection of the Big Cypress and the Everglades..
Coast Guard Merchant Marine, and, of course, a Florida Master Naturalist.
Army Engineer in Surveying & Mapping, an officer in the U.
S.
He was a U.
S.
College.
Franklin Adams is a native of Miami and graduated from Miami-Dade Jr.
Penniman and his wife, Linda reside in Naples, Florida.
Penniman has four books- A Toxic Inconvenience: Red Tide and Blue-Green Algae on Florida\'s Coast, Nature\'s Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida , On The Knife: A History of Sugar in Florida and Enjoyment of the Same: A History of Public Lands in Southwest Florida.
Penniman is currently chair emeritus of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, a trustee emeritus of the Everglades Foundation, past chair of AmericanRivers and chair emeritus of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
Louis.
A 1960 graduate of Princeton University, he did graduate work at both the Wharton Graduate School and Washington University St.
Louis Post-Dispatch and as senior VP of newspaper operations for Pulitzer Publishing Company.
Penniman IV retired in 1999 as publisher of the St.
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