Honorary Membership in The Wildlife Society is intended to recognize continuous outstanding service in any area or areas of concern to the Society. Any practicing or retired wildlife professional who is a member of TWS and has made continuous valuable contributions to the wildlife profession over a long period of time is eligible for nomination.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE
Nominations should include:
- Nomination narrative – A clear and concise statement justifying the nomination, including the specific nature, time, and place of the nominee’s outstanding service and accomplishments (address such criteria as difficulty, insight, scope, importance, acceptance, application, value, impact, and geographic scope of contributions);
- At least three signed statements of endorsement that included the address, email address and phone number of endorsers.
Nomination materials must be uploaded via the online nominations system by May 1 at 11:59 PM ET.
For questions related to TWS Awards please email, awards@wildlife.org.
HONORARY MEMBERSHIP AWARD RECIPIENTS
| 2020 Thomas J. Ryder |
| 2019 Jon Eugene Swenson |
| 2018 John F. Organ |
| 2017 Thomas M. Franklin |
| 2016 Terry Blankenship Terry Kreeger |
| 2014 David E. Steffen Robert J. Warren |
| 2013 R. Terry Bowyer |
| 2012 E. O. “Oz” Garton James M. Peek |
| 2011 Theodore (Ted) A. Bookhout |
| 2010 Stanley A. Temple |
| 2009 James L. Byford Daniel H. Pletscher |
| 2008 Harry E. Hodgdon |
| 2007 D. Lynn Draw R.J. Gutierrez |
| 2006 Charles DeYoung Ronald F. Labisky |
| 2005 Fred S. Guthery James W. Hardin |
| 2004 David R. Anderson Fred C. Bryant Paul R. Krausman |
| 2003 E. Charles Meslow Nova J. Silvy R. Montague Whiting |
| 2002 Lewis M. Cowardin James E. Miller Rollin Sparrowe |
| 2000 Lytle H. Blankenship Harry A. Jacobson Gary C. White |
| 1999 David R. Klein Larry Marchinton John W. Mumma |
| 1998 John J. Craighead A. Sydney Johnson |
| 1997 Ronald R. Ryder Milton W. Weller |
| 1996 Robert D. Nelson |
| 1995 Jack H. Berryman Frances Hamerstrom |
| 1994 James G. Teer |
| 1993 Dale H. Arner Richard F. Harlow L. David Mech |
| 1992 Burd S. McGinnis Richard D. Teague |
| 1991 Wayne W. Sandfort Jack Ward Thomas |
| 1990 George V. Burger Tony J. Peterle James D. Yoakum |
| 1989 Laurence R. Jahn Glen C. Sanderson John G. Stelfox |
| 1988 Malcolm W. Coulter W. Leslie Pengelly |
| 1987 Willard D. Klimstra C. W. Severinghaus |
| 1986 Thomas S. Baskett Robert A. McCabe Wendell G. Swank |
| 1985 Bill T. Crawford Howard L. Mendall |
| 1984 Charles M. Kirkpatrick William G. Sheldon |
| 1983 Kai Curry-Lindahl William L. Webb |
| 1982 Frank C. Bellrose Helenette Silver |
| 1981 Thomas L. Kimball William F. Sigler |
| 1980 H. Albert Hochbaum Jessop B. Low William H. Marshall Kaj E. Westerskov |
| 1979 Mario L. Cossio Paul L. Dalke Thomas G. Scott |
| 1978 Charles H. Callison Louis A. Krumholz Reuben E. Trippensee |
| 1976 John S. Gottschalk Francis M. Uhler |
| 1975 Russell E. Train |
| 1974 Lucille F. Stickel |
| 1973 Raymond F. Dasmann |
| 1972 Gustav A. Swanson |
| 1971 Stanley A. Cain Donald W. Douglass Joseph J. Hickey Tracy I. Storer |
| 1969 Daniel L. Leedy Joseph P. Linduska Henry S. Mosby Lee E. Yeager |
| 1968 Stewart L. Udall |
| 1966 Durward L. Allen C. H. D. Clarke Homer S. Swingle |
| 1965 Ian McTaggart Cowan A. Starker Leopold |
| 1964 C. Gordon Fredine Ralph T. King Harry D. Ruhl |
| 1963 Clarence M. Tarzwell |
| 1961 George W. McCullough Ernest F. Swift |
| 1960 Enrique Beltram Clarence W. Watson |
| 1959 A. G. Huntsman Stanley P. Young |
| 1958 Albert M. Day |
| 1956 P. F. English George O. Henrickson |
| 1955 Arthur A. Allen Clarence Cottam Paul L. Errington |
| 1954 F. Frazer Darling Carl D. Shoemaker |
| 1953 C. R. Gutermuth Kenneth A. Reid |
| 1952 E. R. Kalmbach Harrison F. Lewis Olas J. Murie Walter P. Taylor |
| 1951 Harold Titus |
| 1949 Charles S. Elton |
| 1948 Frederic C. Walcott |
| 1947 Seth Gordon Hoyes Lloyd E. Sydney Stephens |
| 1946 Ira N. Gabrielson Aldo Leopold W. L. McAtee Ernest Thompson Seton |
| 1940 H. L. Stoddard |
| 1938 J. N. (Ding) Darling |