Past Award Recipients

Past NAA Award Recipients

George B. Fell Lifetime Achievement AwardCarl N. Becker Stewardship AwardRising Leader Award
2023Rick Myers, Ph.D.2023Garrett Altmann

2022Thomas Meyer2022Ellen Jacquart2022Samuel King
2021Glenn Juday2021Ken McCarty

2020Thomas Foti



2019Reed Noss2019Mentor Marsh Stewardship Team, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

2018William (Bill) Weeks2018Joyce Bender

2017Larry Smith2017Bill Kleiman

2016John O. Sawyer2016Jenny Cruse-Sanders

2015Sylvia Taylor2015Martin Blaney

2014Paul Knoop2014Lee Casebere

2013Fran Harty2013The Stewardship Network

2012Joan Seevers2012Southern Illinois Invasives Strike Team

2011Richard Thom2011Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program

2010David Brunckhorst2010Joe Woolbright

2009Hal DeSelm



2008Elsie Quarterman2008Gary Milano

2007John Bacone2007Jeff Krause

2006Charles Van Riper III2006Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park, Diablo Trust, Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission

2005John Humke2005Okefenokee Wildlife League (OWL)

2004James Bissell2004Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Keith and Mary Blackmore

2003Wilbur Mayhew2003Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park

2002W. Leon Neel2002Dr. Dennis Nyberg

2001Margaret Hames2001Monterey Pine Forest Watch

2000John Schwegman



1999The Babbit Family



1998Dr. Edward G. Voss and Bertha Daubendick



1997Dr. Robert E. Frenkel



1996The Prairie Triad pioneers of prairie preservation in northern Illinois:
  • Robert Betz, The Prairie Prophet
  • Ray Schulenberg, The Prairie Practitioner
  • Floyd Swink, The Prairie Patriarch




1995Dr. Alton A. Lindsay and John Wylie Chief, Natural History Division, Missouri Department of Conservation



1994William Barnes



1993Dr. Richard Goodwin



1991Charles A. Wellner



1990Jerry F. Franklin



1989Dr. Robert E. Jenkins



1987Clifford E. Germain



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