The John P. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award
Cliff Crawford
The Partnership Award
David Heft
The Research Award
Maryann McGraw
The Habitat Enhancement Award
Albuquerque Wildlife Federation
The Public Awareness/Education Award
Respect the Rio
2008
Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award
Danny Waldon
Wildlife Technician - Lincoln NF
For: 21 years of habitat involvement work mostly done through the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Habitat Stamp Program
Partnership Award
John Dixon
Soils & Hydrology Resource Staff - Santa Fe NF
For: riparian and wet meadow protection and restoration at Cecelia Creek
and coordination of partners needed to get the work done.
Research Award
Dan Shaw
Science Teacher - Bosque School
For: continued leadership in promoting science and research at the Bosque
School
Habitat Enhancement Award - Individual
Dave Morgan
President, La Calandria Associates
For: over 10 years of leadership in developing wetlands and restoring
riparian areas of the Rio Grande on the Ohkay Owingay lands north of
Espanola
Habitat Enhancement Award - Group
Santa Clara Indian Pueblo (Bruce Bauer)
For: riparian improvement work on the Rio Grande
Public Awareness & Education Award - Group
Deborah Finch, Janet Yagoda Shagam, Helen Huntley, and Stephanie Martin
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
For: developing "The Rocky Mountain Riparian Digest," an online outreach
tool to market research from RMRS and collaborators
Habitat Honorable Mention (Certificate)
Barney Wegener
Natural resource Specialist & Riparian Coordinator
BLM - Farmington Field Office
For: over 10 years of leadership in the assessment and management of
degraded riparian systems in the San Juan River basin, which has allowed
these systems to demonstrate their true riparian nature
2005 Awards
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Doug Shaw
The Partnership Award
Quivira Coalition
The Research Award
Dr. Leigh Fredrickson
The Habitat Enhancement Award
David Menzie
The Public Awareness/Education Award
Quivira Coalition
2004 Awards
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Jan-Willem Jansens
For his leadership as the Executive Director of Earthworks and as former Project Director for the Galisteo watershed restoration effort in applying innovative watershed and riparian restoration techniques.
The Partnership Award
George Long
For his work with numerous volunteer groups on the Valle Vidal to enhance stream and riparian conditions, his work with the Quivira Coalition and New Mexico Environment Department resulting in over $300,000 of water quality enhancement grants within the Comanche Creek watershed, and his work as a wildlife biologist in the Questa and Camino Real Ranger Districts of the Carson National Forest.
The Research Award
U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station & The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
For their work on the Middle Rio Grande Fuels Reduction Study.
The Habitat Enhancement Award (2 Habitat Enhancement Awards were given in 2004)
Lou Naue of the San Francisco River Association
For her leadership on reestablishing riparian habitat along the San Francisco River.
The Pueblo of Santa Ana
For its river restoration project, described as the most dramatic of many efforts to revive the largest cottonwood gallery forest in the Southwest. The project also involved restoring the natural river channel, floodplain reconnection and the creation of aquatic and riparian habitat.
The Public Awareness/Education Award
United South Broadway Corporation's Bosque Youth Conservation Corps, Albuquerque Open Space, & Trees New Mexico
For their completion of numerous fuels clearing projects, trail creation projects, riparian conservation trainings, and their riparian planting projects.
2003 Awards
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Sid Goodloe
For his 45 years of outstanding stewardship of his Carrizo Valley Ranch in Lincoln County and his hospitality and involvement in numerous on-the-ground workshops at the Ranch.
The Partnership Award
Trees New Mexico and Los Lunas Parks and Recreation Department
For their work on the Los Lunas River Park Project and their involvement of partners such as the Los Lunas Youth Conservation Corps, the Fish and Wildlife Service, State Forestry, the NRCD Plant Materials Center, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, the Village of Los Lunas City Council and Mayor, and the Inmate Work Camp Program.
The Research Award
Dr. James Cleverly
For his leadership in efforts to evaluate evapo-transpiration rates of riparian habitat in the Middle Rio Grande.
The Habitat Enhancement Award
Gina Dello Russo
For her exemplary efforts to fund and complete a comprehensive river restoration and rehabilitation plan for the Socorro reach of the Rio Grande, in addition to her development of a voluntary conservation easement program for private landowners in the floodplain.
The Public Awareness/Education Award
Gerald Schuder, Terry Hicks, and Dan Loughran
For their dedicated work on the Candelaria Wetland Project and the Rio Grande High School Intern Program.
2002 Awards
The Partnership Award
The Watershed Protection Section of the New Mexico Environment Department's Surface Water Quality Bureau
For their work developing relationships with land managers, private land owners, soil & water conservation districts, and others.
The Research Award
Kim Eichhorst
For her doctoral research on insects that defoliate cottonwoods, her work for the Museum of Southwestern Biology and the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program.
The Habitat Enhancement Award
Ciudad Soil & Water Conservation District
For their various environmental enhancement projects, including the East Mountain Forest Health Project, the Tijeras Creek Urban Demonstration and Education Project, and the Juan Tabo Demonstration Site.
The Public Awareness/Education Award
Molly Madden
For her work developing and updating the Bosque Education Guide, her participation in the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program, and the field trip program she established at Rio Grande Elementary School.
2001 Awards
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Dale Jones
The Partnership Award
Tierra y Montes Soil & Water Conservation District
The Research Award
Dr. Cliff Dahm
The Habitat Enhancement Award
Middle Rio Grande Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation
The Public Awareness/Education Award
Melanie Greer Deason
1999 Awards
The Partnership Award
Penasco Project
For this partnership of fourteen grazing permitees, four nonprofit organizations, two schools, three federal agencies, and two state agencies work on cattle management, erosion control, and environmental education.
The Research Award
Ross Coleman
For his continued work and research on wetland and riparian plant propagation.
The Habitat Enhancement Award
Stephen MacDonald and The Upper Gila Watershed Alliance
For their work fencing out trespass cattle and planting native vegetation on their riparian lands along the Upper Gila River.
The Monitoring Award
Seldom Seen Adventures
For their work with the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program.
