National Wetlands Awards Archive
Conservation And Restoration
As a former wildlife biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, and as a volunteer and consultant during his retirement, Dr. Alan P. Ammann has led an interagency effort to restore native ecosystems. (Lee, New Hampshire)
Science Research
Dr. Curtis J. Richardson received a PhD in ecology from the University of Tennessee. (Durham, North Carolina)
Education And Outreach
Professor Royal C. Gardner is director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy and professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. (Gulfport, Florida)
Wetland Community Leader
Ms. Hazel Sinclair, a high school biology teacher and a New Orleans and southeastern Louisiana native, is passionate about nature, her state’s coastal wetlands, and public education. (Covington, Louisiana)
Wetland Community Leader
Mr. Barth Crouch has spent his career monitoring and protecting wildlife species and enhancing their habitats. (Salina, Kansas)
State, Tribal, And Local Program Development
Mr. Tom Foti’s three-decade career has had a great impact on the wetlands of Arkansas. (Little Rock, Arkansas)
Landowner Stewardship
Mr. Neil Bien was the second of seven children born on land in South Dakota originally homesteaded by his great-grandmother and grandfather. (Veblen, South Dakota)
Conservation And Restoration
Ms. Catherine Macdonald was an undergraduate at Humboldt State University when she first worked with The Nature Conservancy as a volunteer preserve manager in the late 1970s. (Portland, Oregon)
Science Research
Dr. Barbara Bedford is a senior research associate in the Department of Natural Resources of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, and is director of the Ecosystems Research Center there. (Ithaca, New York)
Education And Outreach
Dr. Martin Main, an educator and naturalist with an MS in biological oceanography, a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology, and experience in environmental policy at the national level, knows that people will not conserve what they do not understand. (Immokalee, Florida)