Izaak Walton League 54 Founders Awards

The League's highest award, given to that person, group or institution judged to have made an outstanding contribution over the years to the conservation of America's renewable natural resources.

1949  William Vogt
1950  Natural Resources Task Force of the Hoover Commission
1951  Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett
1952  Muskingum Watershed Conservancy, District Of Ohio
1953  None
1954  Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson
1955  Resources for the Future Inc
1956  Arthur H. Carhart
1957  Clifford R. Hope
1958  Dr. E.R. Kalmbach
1959  Seth Gordon
1960  Maytag Company
1961  None
1962  Lawrence S. Rockefeller
1963  Rachel Carson
1964  Hon. Stewart L. Udall (Secretary of the Interior)
1965  U.S. Congressman Wayne N. Aspinall (Colorado)
1966  Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson
1967  Hon. Paul H. Douglas (U.S. Senator from Illinois)
1968  Vinton W. Bacon
1969  Sigurd F. Olson
1970  U.S. Congressman John P. Saylor (Pennsylvania)
1971  Raymond A. Hails
1972  Joseph W. Penfold
1973  Frank B. Hubachek
1974  Thomas E. Dustin
1975  Malcolm King
1976  None
1977  None
1978  None
1979  M.L. Bud Heinselman, Donald Fraser
1980  Earl Sandvig
1981  U.S. Senator John C. Culver (Iowa)
1982  None
1983  None
1984  David and Judy Siddon
1985  Frank Bellrose
1986  None
1987  Willard M. Munger
1988  None
1989  None
1990  Jane Dustin
1991  None
1992  David Zentner
1993  Judge Howard White
1994  None
1995  Jack Lorenz
1996  None
1997  Charles and Leila Wiles
1998  Paul Toren
1999  None
2000  Donald Ferris
2001  Dr. Roy Overton
2002  Stan M. Adams
2003  Monty Montgomery
2004  None
2005  Wendell Haley
2006  James A. Haring
2007  Paul W. Hansen
2008  Chuck and Gail Woosley
2009  Timothy W. Reid, Mike Williams
2010  Raymond Zehler
2011  Dale Brentnall