Awards
The Ansel Adams Award
The Wilderness Society’s Ansel Adams Conservation Award is presented to a current or former federal official who has shown exceptional commitment to the cause of conservation and the fostering of an American land ethic.
Recipients:
Ansel Adams 1980
Jimmy Carter 1981
John F. Seiberling 1982
Phillip Burton 1983
Morris K. Udall 1984
Cecil D. Andrus 1985
Stewart L. Udall 1986
Sidney Yates 1987
John H. Chafee 1988
Allan Cranston 1989
William V. Roth, Jr. 1989
Gaylord Nelson 1990
George J. Mitchell 1991
George Miller 1992
Bruce F. Vento 1994
Albert Gore, Jr. 1997
Dale Bumpers 1998
Kathleen A. McGinty 1999
David Obey and John Porter 2000
John Lewis 2001
John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman 2002
Nick J. Rahall II 2004
Harry Reid 2004
Ernest F.Hollings 2005
Maria Cantwell 2006
Sherwood L. Boehlert 2007
James M. Jeffords 2007
Norman D. Dicks 2008
Michael P. Dombeck 2010
Bruce Babbitt 2011
Ken Salazar 2013
Max Baucus 2014
John Podesta 2015
Dianne Feinstein 2016
Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jr. 2019
Raúl M. Grijalva 2022
The Robert Marshall Award
The Robert Marshall Award is The Wilderness Society's highest award presented to a private citizen who has never held federal office but has devoted long-term service to and has had a notable influence upon conservation and the fostering of an American land ethic.
Recipients:
Sigurd F. Olson 1981
George Marshall 1982
Larry Rockefeller 1983
Russell W. Peterson 1984
Theodore R. Swem 1985
Margaret Murie 1986
T. H. Watkins 1988
Wallace Stegner 1989
Frances Beinecke 1990
Arnold Bolle 1993
David Brower 1994
Charles Crane Bradley and Nina Leopold Bradley 1995
Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. 1996
Thomas A. Barron 1997
Celia M. Hunter 1998
Clarence Petty 1999
Stewart Brandborg 2000
Edward A. Ames 2001
Peggy and Ed Wayburn 2001
Brant Caulkin 2004
Terry Tempest Williams 2006
Clif Merritt 2008
Bethine Church 2009
Billy Frank 2010
Hansjörg Wyss 2011
David Getches (posthumously) 2012
Dennis and Ann Pence And Aspenwood Foundation 2013
William Cronon 2014
Sarah James 2015
Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam 2016
Edward Osborne Wilson 2016
Roxanne Quimby 2017
Robert B. Semple, Jr. 2018
Rose Letwin 2020
Jaime A. Pinkham 2021
