2012 IWLA National Award Winners
Izaak Walton League members and supporters were honored for their 2011 contributions to conservation in America at the League's 2012 national convention.
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Founders’ Award
The League’s highest honor
is given to an individual, group, or
organization judged to have made an outstanding
contribution to the conservation of America’s
natural and renewable resources. Only one can
be awarded per year.
Dale
Brentnall, IA
Hall of Fame
Award
These members achieved a
record of outstanding accomplishment in
furthering the mission and goals of the
League.
Charles (Chuck)
Clayton, SD
Jill Crafton, MN
Miles
Greenbaum, MD
Arthur Janovsky, IN
Will
Lehner, WI
Stanford M. Adams Memorial
Award
This new award (created
in 2010) recognizes a National Director,
Director-at-Large, or Regional Governor who has
shown extraordinary commitment to the duties
and responsibilities that come with his or her
League position.
John R.
Dickel, NM
Conservation Award
This award recognizes
individual member contributions to conservation
in the name of the League.
Lester Abbott, PA
Robert
Blosser, WV
Meo Curtis, MD
Tom Holm,
IA
W. Michael Lane,
VA
Timothy Russell, IN
Larry Snyder,
WV
Outdoor Ethics
Award
Presented to individuals,
groups, or organizations judged to have done
outstanding work in outdoor
ethics.
Christopher Bonatti,
MD
Timothy Ferguson, IN
Chuck Garland,
IA
Save Our Streams Award
Presented to individuals,
groups, and/or organizations that have done
outstanding work in environmental education and
citizen activism for clean
water.
Diana Chapter,
IN
Indiana Dunes State Park, IN
Muddy
Branch Alliance, MD
James Lawton Childs Award
This award recognizes the
chapter that has carried out the most
outstanding conservation program(s) during the
past year.
West Central
Chapter, IA
Robert C. O’Hair Award
This award recognizes the
chapter that has carried out the most
outstanding youth program(s) during the past
year.
West Central Chapter,
IA
Thelma “Pete” Reed Memorial
Award
This award is presented
to a member who is considered an “up and
coming” future leader of the Izaak Walton
League of America.
Wanda
Gerard, VA
Outdoor America’s Future
Award
This award is presented
to an individual youth or student member who
has volunteered many hours at the local or
state level in conservation projects, related
efforts in school, community service, or
chapter leadership development and, by virtue
of his or her grassroots efforts, is considered
an “up and coming” future leader of the
Izaak Walton League.
Stanley M.
Jarosz III, IN
Honor Roll
Award
These nonmembers achieved
outstanding accomplishments in conservation,
public education, and/or publicity efforts in
keeping with the League’s
goals.
Terry Gompert
(posthumous), NE
Paul Hlavinka, MD
Bob
Marshall, LA
Thomas Perry, MD
West
Virginia Botanic Garden, WV