Individual Service Award

Individual Award Recipients:

The Individual Service Award is presented annually to up to three recipients who have made significant and lasting contributions to the outdoor recreation profession. The award may recognize one specific contribution or a series of contributions over one’s career.

2024

  • Clement Lau, Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation
  • Mercy M'fon, Wild Diversity
  • Michael A. Allen, National Park Service

2022

  • Ayn Weiskamp, East Bay Regional Parks District
  • Greg Corio, West Virginia University
  • Tim Young, Wyoming Pathways

2020

  • Smith, Utah Office of Outdoor Recreation, Minnesota Land Trust
  • Yu-Fai Leung, North Carolina State University
  • Shawn LindseyState of Virginia

2019

  • Derrick Crandall, American Recreation Coalition
  • Dr. Gary Green, U.S. Forest Service, retired
  • Tom Keith, Logan Simpson
  • Tara McKee, Utah Office of Outdoor Recreation

2018

  • Barbara Nelson-Jameson
  • Charlie Jacobi
  • Aaron Lowden

2017

  • Mary Donze, Missouri State Parks
  • Nick Morris, Stark County Park District
  • Arnold Randall, Forest Preserves of Cook County

2016

  • Mary Coulombe, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Francisco Valenzuela, U.S. Forest Service

2015

  • Andy Windsor, Bureau of Land Management, Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area
  • Danette Poole, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
  • Bob Campbell, National Park Service, Chesapeake Bay Office

2014

  • Dr. Robert Manning, The University of Vermont
  • Kathleen Hooper, Santa Clara County Parks
  • Carol Severin, East Bay Regional Parks District and San Francisco State University



2013

  • Dr. Lowell Caneday, Oklahoma State University
  • Robert A. Fonte, Stark County (Ohio) Park District
  • Dusty Shultz, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

2012

  • Joe Elton, Virginia State Parks
  • Kate Schutt, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department

2011

  • Ron Stewart, Boulder County Parks and Open Space
  • Roger Lewis, Lower Colorado River Authority

2010

  • Terry Slider, USDA Forest Service
  • Jim Eychaner, State of Washington Recreation and Conservation Office

2009

  • Wayne Strum, National Park Service
  • John Davy, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation


2008

  • Tim Bradle, Lower Colorado River Authority
  • Merdith "Cam" Lockwood, USDA Forest Service, Trails Unlimited

2007

  • Bob Ditton, Texas A&M University
  • Dan Wiley, National Park Service, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail

2006

  • Marlene Finley, USDA Forest Service
  • Joseph Stephen Weaver, Nevada State Parks
  • Vernon Lovejoy, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation


2005

  • Gloria Shinn, National Parks Service, Seattle WA
  • Keith Demetrak, California State Parks

2004

  • Ray Murray, National Park Service, California


2003

  • Wayne Sames, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
  • Craig Karr, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

2002

  • Mary Fitch, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
  • Charles Van Genderen, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks

2001

  • Robert Reinhardt, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation

2000

  • Roxane Eley, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
  • Don Bruns, Bureau of Land Management

1999

  • Beth McClure, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism

1998

  • Charles R. Jordan, Parks & Recreation, City of Portland, OR and Board of Directors, The Conservation Fund
  • Greg Super, USDA Forest Service
  • D. Thomas Ross, Recreation & Conservation, National Park Service
  • Jeff Packer, Utah Division of Parks & Recreation

1997

  • Sue Spear, USDA Forest Service

1996

  • Fran Mainella, Recreation & Parks, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
  • David Dahlquist, David L. Dahlquist Associates

1995

  • Albert Gregory, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
  • Leslie Reid, Texas A&M University

1994

  • Bruce Kennedy, California Department of Parks and Recreation

1993

  • Dick Westfall, Illinois Department of Conservation