The Jack Davis
Conservationist of the Year
Award
The purpose of the Jack Davis Conservationist of the Year Award is to recognize local citizens that have taken on
difficult environmental issues and have, as a result, made a significant
difference within the past year or recent years. The award is named in memory of
Jack Davis, a founder of the Black Hills Audubon Society, who, for over 25
years, served as a tireless volunteer activist and mentor to emerging activists.
The Conservation Committee of the Black Hills Audubon Society (BHAS) recommends
individuals or teams for the award to the BHAS Board for final selection and
approval. In its recommendation, the Conservation Committee seeks to maintain
one of the fundamental principles of the Audubon Society as a grass-roots
organization with a long history of promoting, encouraging and relying on local
citizen activism to achieve real improvements on environmental issues.
The presentation of the award is generally made at the annual dinner of the
Black Hills Audubon Society, and is featured in the next Echo newsletter
that follows the dinner (March-April, 2008, edition).
With this purpose in mind, the Conservation Committee is guided by the following
set of criteria:
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Work has
generally been within the BHAS geographical base (Thurston, Mason, and
Lewis Counties)..
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Nominees may or
may not be members of BHAS.
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Work was a
volunteer initiative relying heavily on volunteer time.
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Nominees worked
collaboratively with others, including other governmental and
non-governmental organizations to help resolve the environmental issue.
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Nominees used
objective sources of information and reliable data and demonstrated
professionalism throughout.
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Nominees worked
consistently on the issue and persevered, proving resourceful under the
difficult challenges.
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Results of
the work made a significant difference either in real environmental
benefits or improved awareness by the public or governmental agencies on
an environmental issue.
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When in the
particular year of the Award, there has not been a big issue or an
outstanding candidate(s), the Conservation Committee may identify
outstanding volunteers or professionals in the environmental field who
have given of their time/energy over the span of a career and have
achieved success on specific issues. In particular, those professionals
who have taken on a sensitive or particularly difficult issue successfully
or who have done outstanding conservation work both within their job and
beyond it.
2008 Jack Davis Conservationist of the Year Award
presented to Friends of Rocky Prairie.
The Black Hills
Audubon Society awarded the 2008 Jack Davis Conservationist of the Year Award
to the Friends of Rocky
Prairie for the group's efforts to preserve prairie habitat and rural
character in southern Thurston County. This award, made to these outstanding citizens for their accomplishments in conservation and
education, was presented at the annual dinner of the Black Hills Audubon Society, held on
March 1, 2008, at the Olympia Community Center.
Join with the
Black Hills Audubon Society to celebrate the achievements of these additional inspiring
individuals. The following is a list of previous winners of the Jack Davis
Conservationist of the Year Award winners:
2007 Jerry
Parker and Jan Witt
2006 David Jennings
2005 Tom Cook
2004 Chris Parsons
2003 Sue Danver and Heath Packard
2002 Susan Markey
2001 George Walter
2000 Sarah Vekasi
1999 Eli Sterling
1998 Scott Richardson
1997 Peter Moulton
1996 Steve Langer
1995 Peggy Bruton and Dave Edwards
1994 Virginia Hoyt
1993 John Peard
1992 Ed Kinney
1991 Gita Moulton
1990 Gene Dziedzic
1989 Janet Dawes
1988 Hans Littooy and Stan Cecil
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