2010 Award Winners

TWS was proud to honor many distinguished members during the Annual Conference. Our congratulations to this year’s award winners.

Aldo Leopold Award

The Wildlife Society bestowed the Aldo Leopold Award on Douglas H. Johnson in recognition of his contributions as a scientist, educator, and visionary leader in the field of wildlife research and management. Johnson received the Society’s highest award on October 3, during the Annual Conference in Snowbird, Utah.

Johnson has devoted his career to the application of statistics to wildlife conservation and has spent more than four decades working for the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, where he now serves as research statistician and senior scientist.

He has been a long-time active member of TWS, has chaired the Biometrics Working Group and twice received TWS Publication of the Year Awards for papers in The Journal of Wildlife Management.

He also received the prestigious Meritorious Service Award in 2000 and the Distinguished Service Award in 2006 from the U.S. Department of the Interior.

President Bruce Leopold and 2010 TWS fellows at the Annual Conference Award Ceremony. Photo by K. Rasmussen.

• Chapter of the Year: Missouri Chapter
• Student Chapter of the Year: Texas A&M University, Kingsville Student Chapter
• Student Chapter Advisor of the Year: Frank Ammer, Frostburg State University
• Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Research Scholarship: Meadow J. Kouffeld
• Diversity Award: Minorities in Natural Resources Committee of the Southeaster Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
• Jim McDonough Award: John J. Moriarty
• Conservation Education Award:  AFWA’s North American Conservation Education Strategy and Conservation Leaders of Tomorrow
• Wildlife Publication Awards
  • Editorship:  Maurice Hornocker and Sharon Negri for Cougar: Ecology and Conservation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2009.
  • Book:  Perry Barboza, Katherine L. Parker, and Ian D. Hume for Integrative Wildlife Nutrition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany. 2009.
  • Article: Katherine C. Kendall, Jeffrey B. Stetz, John Boulanger, Amy C. MacLeod, David Paetkau, and Gary White for “Demography and genetic structure of a recovering grizzly bear population.” Journal of Wildlife Management 73:3-17, 2009, The Wildlife Society.
  • Monograph: James W. Cain III, Paul R. Krausman, J.R. Morgart, Brian D. Jansen, and Martin P. Pepper for “Responses of desert bighorn sheep to removal of water sources.” Wildlife Monographs 171, 2008.
• Caesar Kleberg Award for Excellence in Applied Wildlife Research: Michael R. Conover
• TWS Fellows: DeeCee A. Darrow,  Dan Svedarsky, Daniel J. Decker, Thomas Decker, Steve Demarais, William G. Minser III, Bruce C. Thompson, Marti Kie
• Special Recognition Service Award: Gerald A. Bartelt
• Honorary Membership: Stanley A. Temple