Sustained Achievement Award

The Sustained Achievement Award recognizes a long-term contribution and commitment to the protection and conservation of natural resources by an individual.

Sustained Achievement Award Recipients

2022 – Larry A. Nielsen, Cary, North Carolina

2021 – Jorge Delgado, Fort Collins, Colorado

2020 – Donald Boesch, Annapolis, Maryland

2019 – Douglas Karlen, Ames, Iowa

2017 – Rattan Lal, Columbus, Ohio

2016 – Alexander E. MacDonald, Boulder, Colorado

2015 – Gerald E. Galloway Jr, College Park, Maryland

2014 – Lynn Scarlett, Arlington, Virginia

2013 – Albert Arnold “Al” Gore Jr, Nashville, Tennessee

2012 – Frederick R. Steiner, Austin, Texas

2011 – Richard B. Alley, University Park, Pennsylvania

2010 – William H. Schlesinger, Millbrook, New York

2009 – Frank H. Wadsworth, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

2008 – William Matuszeski, Washington, District of Columbia

2007 – Cecil Lue-Hing, Burr Ridge, Illinois

2006 – Heidi Margrit McAllister, Silver Spring, Maryland

2005 – V. Phillip Rasmussen Jr., Logan, Utah

2004 – L. Pete Heard, Madison, Mississippi

2003 – Michael P. Dombeck, Stevens Point, Wisconsin

2002 – Edward O. Wilson, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2001 – John Cairns Jr., Blacksburg, Virginia

2000 – William J. Carroll, Pasadena, California

1999 – Jack Ward Thomas, Missoula, Montana

1998 – Jane Lubchenco, Corvallis, Oregon

1997 – William B. Stapp, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1996 – William M. Lewis Jr., Boulder, Colorado

1995 – William E. Larson, St. Paul, Minnesota

1994 – E. William Anderson, Lake Oswego, Oregon

1993 – Marion Clawson, Washington, District of Columbia 1992 – Gilbert F. White, Boulder, Colorado

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