CRITERIA
The Special Recognition Service Award honors a person or group who has made an outstanding contribution over the short or long term to one or more of the following areas:
- The Wildlife Profession
- The General Areas of Wildlife Conservation, Management or Science
- A Specific Area of Endeavor, Species, Community, Ecosystem, Region, Etc.
The Individual or group does not need to be a member of TWS.
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.
Nomination materials must be submitted via the online nominations system by May 1 at 11:59 PM ET.
For questions related to TWS Awards please email, awards@wildlife.org.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS
| 2023 Jeannine Fleegle Seth Magle | 2022 Allison S. Cox Anna Knipps |
| 2021 Robert P. Lanka Meredith Laws | 2020 Michael P. Gutzmer |
| 2019 Carrie Hunt | 2018 No recipients |
| 2017 No recipients | 2016 Evelyn Merrill |
| 2015 Thomas D. Nudds | 2014 John W. Bowers |
| 2013 W. Daryl Jones Shane Mahoney | 2012 Edward E. Bangs |
| 2011 Larry Schwitters | 2010 Gerald A. Bartelt |
| 2009 Western EcoSystems, Inc. | 2008 Inaugural Southeastern Natural Resources Graduate Student Symposium Steering Committee |
| 2007 R. Ben Peyton and Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation | 2006 Larry Aumiller |
| 2005 No recipients | 2004 Dr. Victor B. Scheffer |
| 2003 Chesapeake Farms Sandra Staples-Bortner | 2002 Warren B. Ballard, Jr. Thomas M. Franklin |
| 2001 David E. Samuel L. Daniel Frenzel | 2000 Stephen A. Nesbitt |
| 1999 Winifred B. Kessler Wolfgang Schroeder | 1998 Roy L. Kirkpatrick Champion International Corporation |
| 1997 Ian G. Stirling | 1995 James L. Byford |
| 1994 Keith W. Harmon Oil Pits Elimination Team | 1993 Robert L. Downing Lloyd B. Keith |
| 1992 Alan B. Sargent Daniel W. Speake | 1991 David R. Klein Charles W. and Elizabeth R. Schwartz |
| 1990 Kenneth A. Brynaert Dennis G. Raveling | 1989 Dale H. Arner Gaylord Donnelley |
| 1988 Ronald F. Labisky Francis M. Uhler North Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society | 1987 Jack Crockford Richard M. DeGraaf J. Henry Sather |
| 1986 Harold E. Alexander Richard E. McCabe Laurence R. Jahn | 1985 Marlin Perkins Don Meier Productions |
| 1984 John E. Crawford Gerald I. Day John R. Torres Colorado Division of Wildlife’s Nongame Program | 1983 Robert E. Radtke Jack Ward Thomas |
| 1982 Louis C. Clapper Richard M. Kerr George G. McCleary Vernon D. Stotts | 1981 Ray C. Erickson James D. Yoakum |