Honorary Membership

Honorary Membership recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to the field of conservation.

Deadline: January 15

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Guidelines

• Write a letter outlining why the nominee deserves this award.
• Collect letters from at least two additional co-sponsors.

Recipients

• 2022: Kate Singley and Eryl Wentworth
• 2021: Rustin (Rusty) Levenson
• 2020: Debra Evans
• 2019: Judith Walsh and Paul Whitmore 
• 2018: Dan Kushel
• 2017: Stephen Koob, Terry Drayman-Weisser
• 2016: Dr. Eric Pourchot and Dr. H.F. (Gus) Shurvell
• 2015: Gloria Fraser Giffords and Catherine Metzger
• 2014: Walter Henry
• 2013: Jean Portell
• 2012: Kathryn A. Makos
• 2011: Perry Huston
• 2010: Mary Wood Lee
• 2009: Virginia Greene, Ross Merrill*, Jose Orraca* 
• 2008: Arthur Beale* and Robert Brill*
• 2007: Roy Perkinson and Susanne Sack
• 2006: Marjorie Cohn and Konstanze Bachmann
• 2005: Mary Todd Glaser and Don Etherington
• 2004: Jacqueline Olin
• 2003: Nobuko Kajitani and Marigene Butler
• 2002: Monona Rossol and Donald Sebera*
• 2001: W. Thomas Chase
• 2000: Heather Lechtman
• 1999: Kathryn Scott*
• 1989: Marilyn Kemp Weidner*
• 1997: Nathan Stolow*
• Ellen McCrady*
• 1996: Mary-Lou E. Florian
• 1993: Walter McCrone*
• 1992: Bernard Rabin*, Elisabeth FitzHugh*, and Paul N. Banks*
• 1991: Gustav Berger*
• 1990: Paul N. Perrot*
• 1988: Walter T. Angst*
• 1987: Lawrence Majewski* and Anne F. Clapp*
• 1985: Louis Pomerantz*
• 1982: Carolyn Horton* and Robert Feller*
• 1977: Elisabeth Packard* and Richard D. Buck*
• 1976: Sheldon Keck* and Caroline K. Keck*
• 1975: George Stout*
• 1974: Rutherford J. Gettens*

 *Deceased