AWARDS

Virginia Chapter SWCS 2023 Award Forms

COMMENDATION AWARD

The Commendation Award gives international recognition to Society members for service to their chapter or council of chapters.

Criteria

• All Society members are eligible for consideration except members who have received a Fellow Award within the past five years.
• The activity for which the individual is recognized should be in line with the Society’s objectives, growth, and activities.
• The nominee shall have served as a committee member, or as a chapter officer, or in another capacity, and shall have been instrumental, in an exceptional way, in the development or implementation of a chapter.
• The activity should have required exceptional time or effort.
• The nominee’s activity shall have been accomplished recently; does not necessarily have to be a long, sustained project; and may have been done over a period of less than a year.
• There is no limit to the number of times the Commendation Award may be given to an individual or on the time span between Commendations.

Commendation Award Recipients

Conservationist of the Year Award

Conservationist of the Year Award is for exceptional service in advancing the science and art of good land and water use.  Service may be in practicing, investigating, administering, or teaching soil and water conservation or closely related fields. (For members and non-members)

Conservationist of the Year Award Recipients

Honor Award

The Honor Award recognizes people, usually nonmembers of the Society or lay members of the Society, for outstanding accomplishments compatible with the mission of the Society.

Criteria

• SWCS members and nonmembers are eligible.
• A nominee’s outstanding accomplishments must be widely recognized by leaders in soil and water conservation and/or related fields.
• The nominee’s influence or position should have materially stimulated interest in and advanced the conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources through one or more of the following fields: author, speaker, educator, administrator, industry, business, banking, soil conservation district, profession (lawyer, doctor, minister, etc.), and nonpartisan political activity.
• The nominee’s activity shall have been of a voluntary nature and not part of his or her normal working duties.
• The nominee’s political activities can in no way be construed to reflect a partisan attitude on the part of the Society.

Honor Award Recipients

June Sekoll Media Award

June Sekoll Media Award is a Virginia Chapter award for an individual or group that writes or produces materials for radio, television, newspapers, magazines, or organizational publications, which significantly increase public understanding and promote wise use of Virginia’s natural resources.

Background: June Sekoll had a family farm in the Southern Tier of New York and was an influential writer on agricultural topics.  From 1965 to 1992 she attended farm conferences across the country, met with various Secretaries of Agriculture, and commented on numerous farm bills. June went to work for Lee Publications as the editor of Country Folks, a regional newspaper that circulated in the Northeast states I believe back in the 1960’s.  One of the many newspapers she worked on in the family of Lee publications was Farm Chronicle, produced in Culpeper, Virginia.  To my knowledge, she never worked for Farm Journal.  June was elected President of the North American Agricultural Journalists (NAAJ) in 1992.  This national organization included members from every major newspaper in the country.  When June passed away in 1993 the NAAJ recognized her with the J.S. Russell Memorial Award.   The Virginia Chapter decided to establish the June Sekoll Media award to honor June’s many contributions to agriculture and conservation.

June Sekoll Media Award Recipients

Merit Award

The Merit Award is given in recognition of an outstanding activity, product, or service by a group, business firm, corporation, or organization that promotes the conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources.

Criteria

• Activities of corporate sustaining members of the Society are eligible.
• Society chapter activities are not eligible in this category.
• Eligible organizations include press, radio, movies, television, industries, corporations, churches, societies, foundations, civic clubs, scout groups, and other organizations, public or private, that have carried out a noteworthy conservation activity.
• The effort or activity shall be in line with the Society’s mission.
• The activity should be the result of an organized program and may include the activity of an agency of government.
• The activity shall have an effect over a large area, at least a large part of a state or province, or parts of several states or provinces.
• The principal effect of the activity should have been directed to other than professional conservationists.
• The activity should have clearly contributed to bringing about better conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources and/or better understanding of natural resource conservation issues.
• The selection of the organization should not bring discredit to similar or competing organizations.

Merit Award Recipients

Outstanding Service Award

The Outstanding Service Award is given to Society members in recognition of distinguished service in helping the Society to develop and carry out its program over a long and sustained period of time. Accomplishments of the nominee should not be of a scope or significance warranting the degree of Fellow but should be greater than those required for the Commendation Award. 

Criteria

• Any Society member may be nominated. A five-year period, however, must elapse before members who have received Fellow Awards are eligible for the Outstanding Service Award.
• Officers at the national and chapter levels, Board members, and Society staff members are eligible during their terms of office.
• The nominee must have performed distinguished service to the Society on a sustained basis for at least 10 years. This service may have been performed at the chapter, regional, or international level, or any combination thereof
• The nominee’s service should include activities that help the Society to achieve its goals and objectives.
• The award will not be given merely to recognize long membership in the Society or to honor a member’s retirement.

Outstanding Service Award Recipients

Pinelands Nursery Ecological Excellence Award

The award recognized an individual contractor, construction company, designer or
organization that displays excellence in an ecological restoration project, unique soil and water conservation stabilization project, or innovative habitat development or enhancement project. A $500 cash award and plaque was given to the recipient or to a non-profit organization of the recipient’s choosing.

This award was awarded jointly by the Pinelands Nursery and the Virginia Chapter.

Pinelands Nursery Awards for Ecological Excellence Recipients

Other Special Awards

Miscellaneous rewards given or received by the Virginia Chapter.

Other Special Award Recipients

COMMENDATION AWARD RECIPIENTS

1969 George Bodecker

1969 Mrs. Fred Schilling

1969 Mrs. Polly Taylor

1970 Margaret Whittaker

1970 Sherman Gold

1970 W. Rogers Meador

1971 Bernard L. Parsons

1971 E. F. Goldstein

1971 John F. Hosner

1971 Louis E. Cullipher

1971 William T. Powers

1972 E. R. Minnick

1972 Jackson B. Hardy

1972 James H. Lillard

1974 Herman D. Bowman

1974 John K. Abernathy

1974 Stuart Finley

1974 Virginia B. McClure

1974 W. W. Lewis

1974 William C. Dudley

1975 Charles D. Baker

1975 Wayne M. Hypes

1976 J. Nick Jones, Jr.

1977 F. F. Carr

1978 J. B. Swiger

1978 Paul H. France

1979 Edward B. Hale

1979 Leslie W. King

1979 William A. McElfresh

1980 Dorothy S. Williams

1980 Irene P. Bullock

1981 Gerard Seeley, Jr.

1981 Helen S. Jeter

1981 William O. Boothe

1982 Caleb Pennock, Jr.

1982 Edwin E. Rodger

1982 Ernest H. Bowling, Jr.

1983 Ernest R. Simmons

1983 Gary M. Boring

1984 Larry D. Goff

1984 Richard E. Rhea

1984 Sandra S. Batie

1985 David S. Farmer

1985 Ernest R. Simmons

1986 Billy C. Morgan

1986 Fred B. Givens, Jr.

1986 M. Tamin Younos

1987 Chuck Stanley

1987 Gene Yagow

1987 Larry Wilkinson

1987 Steve Hawks

1987 Vernon Shanholtz

1988 Bobby Whitescarver

1988 Danny Boyer

1988 Kathy Blackwell

1988 Saied Mostaghimi

1989 Alyson Sappington

1989 Charles J. Koch

1989 Joseph H. Scales

1989 L. Willis Miller

1991 C. B. Slemp

1991 Carl Zipper

1991 Glenn Graham

1991 Jack E. Frye

1991 Lee Daniels

1992 John N. Selby

1993 James W. Cox

1994 Debbie Cross – Leadership in the North Fork Goose Creek Watershed project

1994 Wade Biddix – Leadership in developing the hydrologic unit planning concept in Virginia

1995 Ernest T. Carter – Outstanding recruitment efforts for the Chapter

1996 J. Micheal Flagg – Support of conservation education through work with the VASWCD Education Foundation and the Envirothon

1996 Pat Paul – Leadership in public information and efforts to recognize others

1997 Melvin Womack – Service to the Virginia Chapter

1998 Mike Foreman – Leadership in developing the Virginia Forested Riparian Buffer initiative

2001 Lisa Sizemore

2007 Gene Yagow

2013 Ray Dorsett

CONSERVATIONIST OF THE YEAR RECIPIENTS

1959 Honorable John H. Daniel

1960 T. G. Ragsdale, Sr.

1961 Homer Quann

1962 Russell J. Fisher, Sr.

1963 John A. Smart

1964 L. W. Kipps

1965 Hubert M. Collins

1966 E. L. Felton

1967 William I. Thomas

1968 C. M. Jones

1969 George W. Dean

1970 Edward W. Mundie

1971 Edgar Garnett

1972 William T. Powers

1973 Bernard L. Parsons

1974 Giles H. Miller, Jr.

1975 Thomas W. Ragsdale

1976 Robert E. Wilkinson

1977 Charles J. Koch

1978 Thomas V. Downing

1979 Stuart Finley

1980 Joseph B. Willson, Jr.

1982 W. C. Garrett

1983 Easley S. Smith

1984 J. Kenneth Robinson

1985 Manly S. Wilder

1986 Senator Joseph Gartlin, Jr.

1987 Roland Geddes

1988 E. C. Compton

1989 James W. Garner

1990 George Norris

1991 Earl Longest

1992 Dr. Lorenza W. Lyons

1993 None

1994 Steve Black – Professional and personal contributions to soil and water conservation

1995 George Beals – Leadership with the VASWCD and efforts to increase district funding

1997 Raymond O. Cocke – Leadership in the Blackwater River 319 Project, Farm-A-Syst pilot project and the “Farmer Thank You Project”

1998 Dawn Shank – Efforts with Watershed Initiatives and the Envirothon

1999 Delegate W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr. – Murphy has represented the Northern Neck in Virginia’s General Assembly since 1982. His accomplishments for conservation are many and include: Virginia’s ban on phosphate detergents; father of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act; restrictions on TBT, a highly toxic pesticide in boat paints; the Water Quality Improvement Act, which established a fund, source to curb nutrient pollution; regulation of the state’s poultry industry, assuring appropriate use of its animal wastes; worked to control urban sprawl long before it was fashionable; proposed banning garbage barges on Virginia’s rivers before it became a hot issue in the 1999 session. His legacy can probably best be stated as “Much can be accomplished if you aren’t concerned with who gets the credit.”

2001 Honorable John Paul Woodley, Jr.

2003 Pete Lewis, Director, Apple Ridge Farm – For his work in founding and developing the 84-acre environmental education, retreat, and mountainside camping facility in Copper Hill – Apple Ridge Farm.

2004 Student Chapter at Virginia Tech – For their work in developing an environmental education curriculum for Apple Ridge Farm.

2007 Union Bankshares Corporation

2009 Billie Jean Elmer

2010 Kathy Holm

2011 Marc Puckett, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

2012 Bruce E. Pearce, Halifax SWCD

2013 Virginia Forage and Grassland Council

2014 Team Culpeper (David Massie, Spencer Yager, Joann Neal, Jim Henshaw), Culpeper SWCD

2015 Bonnie Mahl, Eastern Shore SWCD

HONOR AWARD RECIPIENTS

1974 Henry D. Ward

1974 Jean R. Packard

1974 Ottie Clay Padgett

1975 Mrs. Pat Clarke Fray

1975 William S. Ray

1976 Robert N. Hoskins

1977 Marshall A. Bristow, Jr.

1978 Melvin N. Nace

1979 James R. Hale

1980 Charles F. Finley, Jr.

1980 J. Harry Jones, Jr.

1981 P. W. Davis

1982 C. B. Slemp

1982 J. B. Jackson

1983 Betty J. Diener

1983 Melvin H. Thomas

1983 William R. Jones, Jr.

1984 Carlos Wayne Combs

1984 Clyde W. Bowling

1984 William W. Smith, Jr.

1985 Charles J. Witter

1985 Eddie Hannah

1985 R. Keith Painter

1986 Dennis & Patty Jones

1986 Hugh Jenkins

1986 Lee Hill & Scott Hardaway

1986 Theo Dillaha

1987 Dr. James Baker

1987 Gerald Seeley

1987 Paxton Marshall

1988 Donald Hartman

1988 Harold Roller

1988 James Cook

1988 Jerry McReynolds

1988 Taylor Murphy

1989 C. Scott Crafton

1989 Frank Strader

1989 George Gilliam

1989 Greg Moser

1989 Lewis Southard

1989 R. Robert Tudor

1989 Tina Lorentzen

1991 Donald O. Thurnau

1991 Dr. George Hawkins

1991 Larry D. Minock

1991 Stuart D. Wilson

1991 W. D. “Berry” Gray

1992 George Simmons

1992 J. Rodney Lewis

1993 Samuel A. Austin

1993 Stephen A. Murray

1994 Franklin Hanks – Leadership to the RC&D program in Virginia

1994 John Boyd – Guidance and leadership to the North Fork Goose Creek Watershed project

1994 Judy Burtner – Training and guidance to the Virginia Conservation Leadership project

1995 David Goode – Increasing public awareness of natural resource conservation activities

1995 Dawn Shank – Leadership and organization of the first Envirothon in Virginia

1995 Don Wells – Professional excellence and service to the Society

1995 Greg Winston – Leadership and organization of the first Heartland of Virginia Forestry Festival

1995 Sally Hicks Mills – Authorship of “The Tidewater Low Country Almanac: A Guide”

1996 Edward A. Hanes – Leadership in Year-Round Forage System Management and Solar Wood Kilns

1997 Blake Ross – Leadership in adapting the Farm-A-Syst program for Virginia

1997 Emily Pritchard – Service through volunteering with AmeriCorps, Envirothon, and VASWCD Youth Conservation Camp

1997 Eric Fitzgerald – Classroom leadership and Envirothon coach

1997 Jay Gilliam – Organizing the statewide volunteer monitoring Save Our Streams program

1997 Russ Perkinson – Leadership of the Virginia Nutrient Management Program

1997 Warren Wells – Innovative teacher of technical, agricultural and wateshed programs for 38 years

1998 Alvin B. Phelps – Initiatives in Civil Rights and new outreach efforts

1998 Debbie Cross – Leadership with the Shenandoah/Potomac Tributary Strategy Development

1998 L. O. “Rex” Greer – Leadership in water quality improvement for the Holston River Basin

1999 Dave Roberts – For his outstanding leadership with students at the Virginia State University SWCS Student Chapter.

1999 Jerry Elkins – For exceptional leadership in water quality improvement for the Big Sandy watershed.

1999 Mike Altizer – For his excellent leadership in controlled grazing education for livestock producers in the Holston and New River watersheds.

2000 Wade Biddix – Leadership in increasing visibility, membership and networking through Chapter events

2001 Bill Modica – Blue Ridge Environmental Network / Friends of the Roanoke River

2001 Billy Mills – Mattaponi Pamunkey Rivers Associations

2006 Fred Garst – In recognition of his voluntary efforts.

2007 Cory Guilliams

2007 Theo Dillaha

2010 J.D. Daniel and Chris Lawrence

2011 Tamim Younos, Cabell Brand Center

2012 Barry Skiles, USDA NRCS

2015 James and Leslie Kellenberger

JUNE SEKOLL MEDIA AWARD RECIPIENTS

1997 Staunton News Leader – Outstanding coverage of agricultural and conservation issues through the press

1998 Karl Blankenship, Bay Journal – Dedicated service as Editor of the Bay Journal

1999 Charles Batchelor and Bill Walsh, Southern States – Charles and NRCS’ Lisa Sizemore turned an idea into a 16-page full color report called Conservation Partners:Conservation Buffers Made Easy, with Bill Walsh’s award-winning writing. Bill traveled throughout the Southeast talking with farmers about why and how they use conservation buffers. The report originally appeared in December in Cooperative Farmer magazine’s 75th Anniversary issue. It went to some 230,000 farm homes, including 33,000 Virginia farmers.

2001 Virginia Wildlife Magazine: Lee Walker, Mel White, Ron Messina, Julia Dixon Smith, Emily Pels, Spike Knuth, Carol Kushlak, and Marika Byrd –

2002 Greg Hammer – For a local cable TV program segment he developed explaining the purpose of a soil survey and demonstrating the differences in soils in the Chesapeake area.

2004 Eastern Shore Environmental Education Council – For their quarterly newspaper insert – Shore Outdoors – which serves as a seasonal guide to exploring the area’s natural resources and highlights the environmental work of council members.

2006 Linda McNatt, Virginia Pilot and the Culpeper SWCD – In recognition of her outstanding communications efforts.

2007 Pat Paul

2010 Virginia Trekkers: David Clough, Brad Fernald, Frank Fitzpatrick, and Alfonso Favale

2011 Michelle Kokolis, James River Association; Bruce Berryhill; Peter Francisco SWCD; Piedmont SWCD; Robert E. Lee SWCD

2012 Adam Downing, Matt Yancey, David Fiscke, Brad Jarvis, and Jason Carter (Virginia Cooperative Extension); J.B. Daniel (USDA NRCS)

2013 Robin Buckalew, Piedmont SWCD

MERIT AWARD RECIPIENTS

1972 Camelot Garden Club

1972 Chesapeake Corporation

1972 Continental Can

1972 U. S. Plywood

1972 Union Camp

1972 WESTVACO Corp.

1973 Ann M. Blackburn

1973 Arthur D. Weiss

1973 Meherrin Ruritan Club

1973 Youth Board of Northern Virginia SWCD

1974 Junior Woman’s Club of Warwick

1974 Prince William County School Board

1974 Thomas Jefferson Junior Woman’s Club

1974 Union Camp Corporation

1974 Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation

1975 Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs

1975 Virginia Forests, Inc.

1975 Virginia Resource Use Education Council

1976 H. B. Lantz, Jr.

1977 Gainesboro Ruritan Club

1977 Virginia Wildlife Federation

1977 WTAR-TV (Norfolk)

1978 Lonesome Pine SWCD Board

1978 The Bull Mountain Bugle

1978 WESTVACO Corp.

1979 Prince William SWCD

1980 Wakefield Junior Woman’s Club

1981 Gloucester Ruritan Club

1981 Hanover-Caroline SWCD

1981 John Marshall SWCD

1982 Penn Virginia Resources Corporation

1982 Piedmont SWCD

1983 Monacan SWCD

1983 Progressive Farmer: Bill Johnson, Upper South Regional Editor

1984 New River SWCD

1984 Southwest Virginia Agricultural Association

1985 Lumber Manufacturers Association

1985 The Enterprise Newspaper – Stuart, VA

1985 Virginia Farm Bureau Federation

1986 The Virginia Chesapeake Bay Clean-Up Group

1986 Virginia Department of Forestry

1986 Virginia Division of Soil and Water Conservation

1986 Virginia Farm & Country Newspaper

1986 Virginia Polytechnic Institute

1987 Colonial SWCD

1987 Nansemond/Chuckatuck RCWP

1987 Virginia Water Resources Newsletter

1988 Chesapeake Bay Foundation

1988 Eastern Shore SWCD

1988 Nature Conservancy

1988 Thomas Jefferson SWCD

1989 John Marshall SWCD

1989 Middle Fork Holston River Water Quality Association

1989 Northern Virginia SWCD

1991 Peaks of Otter SWCD

1991 Rochelle Farm (John and Earl Lamb)

1991 Tandem School

1992 Ford’s Colony at Williamsburg

1993 Virginia Division of Soil & Water Conservation

1994 Alliance for Chesapeake Bay

1994 Marcy Judd – Training volunteers in collecting and monitoring reliable water quality data

1994 Nature Conservancy Clinch Valley Bioreserve – Improvements to the natural resource base within the Clinch Valley Bioreserve

1994 Philip Morris, USA – Support of natural resource conservation activities in Virginia

1995 Friends of Little Reed Island Creek – Improvement activities to the natural resource base within the Little Island Creek watershed

1995 Grassroots Conservancy – Leadership in developing the Marion Riverwalk and Tree Identification Lab

1995 Tidewater SWCD – Guidance and technical assistance for “The Tidewater Low Country Almanac: A Guide”

1996 Historic Staunton River Foundation, Inc. – Leadership in developing a national historic site through conservation easements and education

1996 Jay Lugar, Deb Nickerson, Neal Vines – Leadership in development of the Virtual Virginia Agricultural Community

1996 Soil & Water Group, Biological Systems Engineering Dept, VA Tech – Leadership, education, research, and development of graduating conservation professionals

1997 Hanover-Caroline SWCD – Coordination of the conservation merit badge at the 5th National Boy Scout Jamboree

1997 Virginia State University – Creative leadership in research, education and outreach

1998 Pat Paul, Ray Dorsett, Barry Fox, Ann Regn, Cephas Hobbs, Dawn Shank, and Randy Shank – Teamwork in developing the Water Wizard Van

1999 Neal Kilgore, Susan Feagins, Gary Boring, and Blaine Delaney – For their leadership in developing the first Watershed Conservation Roundtable in Virginia. The group worked to pull together stakeholders in the Upper Tennessee River watershed to join in identifying and addressing water quality problems.

1999 Upper Tennessee/Big Sandy Watershed Manager

2000 CREP Team – Bobby Whitescarver, USDA-NRCS; John Myers, USDA-NRCS; Carolyn Felts, USDA-FSA; and Lee Hill, VaDCR – Teamwork and leadership in developing and implementing the Conservation Reserve Program

2000 David Sausville (Ducks Unlimited) – Work with landowners to restore Virginia’s wetlands through construction of wildlife impoundments

2000 Sandy Greene, Headwaters SWCD; Pat Paul, USDA-NRCS; Cephas Hobbs, USDA-NRCS; Stephanie Martin, VASWCD; and Dawn Shank, VaDCR – Leadership in conservation education for “Community Waters: Natural Resource Conservation Week 2000”

2000 USDA-NRCS Service Unit 11 (Gene Harris) – Service in providing technical assistance with soil and water conservation programs

2001 Barbara Adcock, Debbie Buckley, and Polly Palmore (Pocahontas Elementary School, Powhatan County) – For excellence in teaching conservation education

2001 Daphne Jamison, President VASWCD – “Community Waters”

2001 Virginia USDA-NRCS: Eugene Morris, Phil Amos, Stuart Bayne, Gilda Best, Dennis Jones, Delbert Southall, and Stuart Ward – For their Service Unit’s outreach effort in the Forestry Incentives Program.

2002 Lake Anna Civic Association’s Water Quality Committee – For their contributions to improving water quality in Lake Anna.

2002 Steve Talley, Canaan Valley Institute – Pivotal work in the creation of many watershed organizations in Virginia and for their leadership in getting citizens involved in the future of water quality in their rivers and streams.

2002 The Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute – Tanya Denckla, Frank Dukes, Mike Ellerbrock, Bettina Ring and Mike Foreman – Outstanding program in helping people gain insight into different perspectives about the same issue.

2002 Virginia Manufacturers Association Outreach – Jay Gilliam, Dr. J. Reese Voshell, Jr., and Amy Bartlett Wright – For their scientific knowledge, talent, support, and magic in development of a valuable tool for educating volunteers in monitoring water quality – “A Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America”.

2003 Citizens for Water Quality Team: Joyce Brooks, VaDEQ; Stacey Brown, Izaak Walton League SOS Program; Jay Gilliam, Izaak Walton League SOS Program; Fran Geissler, VaDCR; and Stacey Moulds, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay – For their coordination between state water agencies and citizen groups and for their development of the Virginia Water Quality Monitoring Citizen’s Guide and brochure.

2003 Virginia USDA-NCS State Resource Program: Ken Carter, John Myers, Greg Moser, Martha Powers, and Dan Solomon – For their expedient development of program criteria for delivery of conservation programs during the last quarter of FY 2003.

2004 Center for TMDL and Watershed Studies, Virginia Tech – In recognition of their leadership and influence on TMDL and watershed plan development, evaluation and implementation at the local, state, and national levels.

2004 Karl Huber and Gina Beale – For their work in updating Virginia’s Hydrologic Units according to the national waterbody dataset standards.

2004 The Virginia Resource Use Education Council, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Bill Portlock, and Randy Shank – For their work in coordinating and implementing the Chesapeake Bay Academy – a week of experiential watershed education training for teachers.

2007 Chesapeake Bay Foundation – Virginia Office

2009 Randolph Macon’s Environmental Studies Program

2011 Dewitt Goin, Bell Creek Farm

2011 Brent Clayton, Virginia Cooperative Extension

2011 Dennis Jones, USDA-NRCS

2011 Deanna Fehr, Piedmont SWCD

2011 Laurel Woodworth, Center for Watershed Protection

2011 Sarah Lawson, Rain Management Systems

2011 David Buckalew, Longwood University

2013 David Bryan, Justin Folks, Robert Glennon, Galon Hall, Jeff Jones, Scott Klopfer, Marc Puckett, Andy Rosenberger, and Blair Smith –  Virginia’s Quail Recovery Initiative Team

> OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS

1982 Sneed T. Adams

1983 Edward W. Mundie

1984 Edwin E. Rodger

1985 Virginia B. McClure

1986 Bernard Parsons

1987 Donald Wells – For outstanding efforts in legislative, fiscal and administrative expertise in making the Chesapeake Bay Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program successful.

1988 Ernest Bowling

1989 Kenneth E. Carter

1992 Lawrence S. Wilkinson

1993 Carolyn Kleene

1994 Jack Frye – Professional excellence and service to the Society

1994 Theo Dillaha – Devoted efforts and significant accomplishments

1995 Ray Dorsett – Contributions to the Chapter and the RC&D program in Virginia

2001 Larry Wilkinson

2004 Theo Dillaha – For his dedication and service to the Virginia Chapter, to the international SWCS organization, and for his contributions to conservation around the globe.

2009 Ken Carter

2015 W. Wade Biddix

PINELANDS NURSERY AWARDS FOR ECOLOGICAL EXCELLENCE RECIPIENTS

2001 Don Knesick, TruGreen LandCare Environmental

2002 Steve Mallette, Resource Management Associates – Pungoteague Creek Shoreline Erosion and Stabilization Project on the Eastern Shore

2005 Northern Neck Planning District Commission

2005 WPL Landscape Architects

2006 Allegheny Construction Company, Inc.

2007 Angler Environmental

2007 Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. and Northern Virginia SWCD

2010 Michael S. Rolband, Wetlands Studies and Solutions, Inc.

2012 Richard Jacobs, Culpeper SWCD

OTHER SPECIAL AWARDS RECIPIENTS

1962 Virginia Chapter – Regional winner of the National Chapter Activities Contest

1968 Charles J. Koch and Edward W. Mundie – Special Certificate for work in obtaining new members.

1994 Student Chapter at Virginia Tech – Sustained Performance for programming regarding wise use and management of natural resources

1996 June Sekoll – Commemorative Recognition as past editor, Farm Chronicle

2011 Larry Wilkinson, USDA-NRCS – Certificate of Appreciation

2011 Martha Powers, USDA-NRCS – Certificate of Appreciation