National Wetlands Awards Archive
Volunteer Leadership
Since the late-1960s, Aurora Gareiss and Virginia Michels Dent have led a series of battles to save the expansive salt marsh and freshwater wetland complexes surrounding their beloved Littleneck Bay in Queens, New York City. (Queens, New York)
Outstanding Program Development
Hillrie Quin, Jr., and Jerry McCollum have spearheaded a wetlands and river preservation movement in Georgia. (Atlanta and Madison, Georgia)
Outstanding Program Development
As Chief Biologist of the Natural Resources Planning and Management Division for the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Donald M. Reed has been a major force in environmental planning for wetlands protection in Wisconsin. (Waukesha, Wisconsin)
Outstanding Program Development
Jackie Sartoris and Donald Witherill have worked diligently to increase protection of Maine’s wetlands. (Augusta, Maine)
Science Research
Mark Brinson is a Professor of Biology at East Carolina University. (Greenville, North Carolina)
Education And Outreach
Leo Kenney has been teaching science at the Reading Memorial High School in Reading, Massachusetts, for the past 23 years. (Reading, Massachusetts)
Land Stewardship And Development
When the Sebastianis purchased property in southern Sonoma County as a site for their proposed Viansa Winery, they wanted not only to produce superior varietal wines but to leave the Earth in as good or better condition than they found it. (Sonoma, California)
Land Stewardship And Development
For 20 years, the Fagerlands have been farming on top of the Prairie Coteau, a geological formation left by the last glacier 10,000 years ago. (Langford, South Dakota)
Volunteer Leadership
Melody Hopkins educates, cajoles, twists arms and organizes, using only a telephone, a computer, a camera and a fax machine, to get Alabama’s politicians, developers, and regulators to protect the state’s coastal wetlands. (Orange Beach, Alabama)
Volunteer Leadership
For more than 25 years, Cliff and Connie Glockner have been advocates for wetlands protection in coastal Louisiana. (Fishermen, Lacombe, Louisiana )