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Awards
Awards Criteria and Guidelines
Award Nomination Form
Nominations are due January 15 of each year
Past Maine Chapter of The Wildlife Society Award Recipients
I. Award of Professional Achievement
1985 Malcolm W. Coulter
1992 Greg Sepik
1993 Ray B. Owen
1994 Jerry Longcore
1998 Gary Donovan
2004 Alan Hutchinson
2008 Mark McCollough
2011 Steven Mierzykowski
2014 Randy Cross
2015 Steve Pelletier
2017 Charlie Todd
2018 Beth I. Swartz
II. Award of Meritorious Service (prior to 2007: Meritorious Service Award)
1999 Mark W. Sweeny
2002 Thomas P. Hodgman
2003 Lyman Feero
2007 Daniel Harrison
2007 William Krohn
2009 Joe Wiley
2010 Phillip deMaynadier
2011 Sandra Ritchie
2012 Richard Hoppe
2012 Kelly Boland
2013 Danielle D’Auria
2014 Don Katnik
2015 George Matula
2016 MaryEllen Rainey Wickett
2017 Lauren Gilpatrick
2018 Daniel McAuley
2019 Lindsay Seward
2021 Lee Kantar
III. Award of Recognition
1980 Penobscot County Conservation Association
1981 Chandler S. Richmond
1982 The Nature Conservancy (ME Chptr)
1984 Clinton B. Townsend
1986 Sid Bahrt
1987 Oliver LaRouche
1991 Dr. Ronald Lott, Pat McGowan
1992 Western Maine National Audubon Society (Bluebird Project)
1994 Anne and George Smith (wildlife rehabilitators)
1995 Howard Duvall (Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative)
1998 McCain Foods, Inc.
1999 Don Mairs
2003 Molly Docherty
2004 Avian Haven
2004 Pam & Brian Wells (Friends of Sunkhaze Meadows)
2006 Inez Boyd and Bangor Nature Club
2007 William Sheehan
2007 Judy Kellogg Markowsky
2008 Bangor Land Trust/Orono Land Trust
2009 Friends of Unity Wetlands
2009 Penobscot County Conservation Association
2010 Cheryl Daigle and Jeff Reardon, Penobscot River Restoration Project
2011 Robert Duchesne
2012 Darlene Allen and Lucy Astbury, Deer Isle/Stonington Elementary School
2012 The Maine Association of Conservation Commissions and conservation commissions of seventy eight Maine towns
2013 Ruth Perry, Maine Science Lady
2013 Maine Farmland Trust
2014 Penobscot Fly Fishers
2014 Gordon Russell and Jane Rosinski
2015 Maine Coast Heritage Trust
2016 University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4H Camp and Learning Centers: Tanglewood, Blueberry Cove, and Bryant Pond
2017 Annie Kassler
2018 Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
2019 Josselyn Botanical Society
2019 Maine Entomological Society
2021 Piscataquis County Soil & Water Conservation District
IV. Award of Student Recognition
2015 Stephen Dunham, Graduate Student
2015 Marie Martin, Undergraduate Student
2017 Kyle Shute, Undergraduate Student
2019 Kelby Leary, Undergraduate Student
Student Support Award
Student Support Award Information and Application Forms (Individual Award, Group Award).
Applications are due February 1
2009 Shonene Scott and Ben Wasserman, University of Maine
2010 Univ. Maine, Student Chapter, TWS – group award: travel to 2010 Northeast Wildlife Conference
2010 Mallory Ward, University of Maine at Machias – individual award: attend a bat conservation workshop
2016 Univ. Maine, Student Chapter, TWS – group award: travel to 2016 Northeast Wildlife Student Conclave