Tag: Aldo Leopold Memorial Award

The best way to heal the wounds of ecological degradation is through storytelling and political involvement, 2021 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award recipient Mike Phillips told wildlifers in his keynote speech...

When John Koprowski was a boy growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his parents often took him fishing on Lake Erie. But while fishing was fun for him, he continued to...

John Organ, the 2020 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award recipient, delivers the keynote address on Friday as the conference wraps up with another day of activities. Keynote 2020 Aldo Leopold Memorial...

When Michael Phillips was 12 years old in 1970, he recalls flipping through the four channels on his parents’ black and white television and stopping when he got to a...

The Wildlife Society is accepting nominations for awards through May 1, 2021. The Awards Program annually honors professional excellence, recognizes outstanding achievement, and highlights contributions to wildlife science and management....

Aldo Leopold Memorial Award recipient Alan Wentz’s presentation at TWS’ 2020 virtual Annual Conference is available for viewing. Wentz was the recipient of the 2019 award, TWS’ highest honor. Wentz...

When John Organ retired last year as chief of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program, it was with mixed feelings. After more than four years...

Before Alan Wentz can even remember, he had a love for the outdoors. “My mother often told me a story,” said Wentz, a retired chief conservation officer for Ducks Unlimited....

It was the fall of 1943, and a young Leigh Fredrickson joined his father for a day in a Missouri River oxbow in Iowa collecting cattail leaves. A cooper, his...

When Winifred “Wini” Kessler learned that she achieved the highest honor bestowed by The Wildlife Society, the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award, she was shocked, she said, and “feeling like a...