Award Nominations
Nominations are due on or before April 30, 2007.
WILD TROUT SYMPOSIUM
A. STARKER LEOPOLD AWARDS - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Marty Seldon FFF
The Wild Trout Symposium Organizing
Committee established the Aldo Starker Leopold Wild Trout Award
in 1984 as a continuing memorial to distinguished naturalist,
teacher, and author A. Starker Leopold who passed away at his
home in Berkeley, California on August 23, 1983. Dr. Leopold
was an important participant in these Symposia and an individual
whose advice was sought at the highest levels of international
fish and wildlife management. He was an avid outdoorsman, very
concerned that our wild trout heritage be preserved. Starker
was a good friend and advisor to many of us.
Two awards are normally given,
in the professional and nonprofessional categories to individuals,
who in the eyes of their peers, have made long-time and significant
contributions to the enhancement, protection, and preservation
of wild trout. The Awards Committee is made up of a chairperson
and the prior recipients.
The first A. Starker Leopold Wild
Trout Awards were made at Wild Trout III in September 1984 to
Martin M. Seldon, a long -time fisherman-conservationist, Sunnyvale,
California and to Dr. Robert J. Behnke, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado, the noted trout biologist. The 1989
awards were made to Otto H. Teller, past President of Trout
Unlimited, Glen Ellen, California and to Frank Richardson, retired
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Assistant Regional Director,
Atlanta Georgia, one of the founders of these wild trout symposia.
The 1994 A. Starker Leopold Awards at Wild Trout V were made
to Gardner Grant, past President of the Federation of Fly Fishers
and another of the early organizers of these symposia, and to
Ronald D. Jones retired US Fish and Wildlife Service, Project
Leader of the Fisheries Assistance Office at Yellowstone National
Park, Wyoming. Author Ernie Schwiebert was honored in the nonprofessional
category and several time Symposium Chairman Roger Barnhart
in the professional category at Wild Trout VI in 1997. Wild
Trout-VII honored Bud Lilly and Robert L. Hunt.
Please submit letters of nomination
in both categories with supporting information including full
contact information for nominees to:
Marty Seldon
Awards Committee Chair
1146 Pulora Court
Sunnyvale, CA 94087-2331
mmseldon@sbcglobal.com
(408)736-5631
Nominations are due on or before April 30, 2007.
