My mother is a librarian, and I’m an unabashed nerd, and so I relished the recent excuse to dig deep into the hardbound volumes that make up 蜜柚APP magazine’s archives. I was looking for the first issue I worked on when I arrived as a senior editor, in 2001, and when I found it, facts about the perilous state of Florida’s Everglades came rushing back. At the time, this iconic ecosystem was in dire straits: Wading bird numbers had dropped 90 percent over the preceding century. And while a multibillion-dollar federal/state plan to restore the wetland’s natural water flow had just been passed, the Everglades’ future was very much an open question. “No one knows if any of this will really work,” we wrote then, “whether the wildlife will actually rebound.” This issue holds—finally, tantalizingly—evidence that the answer is “yes.” As you’ll see in our story about the recent Everglades breeding boom, wading birds have responded to last year’s heavy...