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The John Burroughs Medal ,
[1] named for nature writer
John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the
John Burroughs Association
[2] to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of
natural history . Only twice has the award been given to a work of fiction.
List of recipients of the John Burroughs Medal
1926 -
William Beebe , Pheasants of the World
1927 -
Ernest Thompson Seton , Lives of Game Animals
1928 -
John Russell McCarthy , Nature Poems
1929 -
Frank M. Chapman , Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America (published 1906)
1930 -
Archibald Rutledge , Peace in the Heart
1931 - no award
1932 -
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh , A Canyon Voyage: A Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition ,
ISBN
0-8165-0880-1
1933 -
Oliver P. Medsker , Spring , Summer , Fall , Winter (set)
1934 -
W.W. Christman , Wild Pasture Pine
1935 - no award
1936 -
Charles Crawford Gorst , Recordings of Bird Calls
1937 - no award
1938 -
Robert Cushman Murphy , Oceanic Birds of South America
1939 -
T. Gilbert Pearson , Adventures in Bird Protection
1940 -
Arthur Cleveland Bent , Life Histories of North American Birds (18 title series, United States Government Printing Office)
1941 -
Louis J. Halle, Jr. , Birds Against Men
1942 -
Edward A. Armstrong , Birds of the Grey Wind
1943 -
Edwin Way Teale , Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden
1944 - no award
1945 -
Rutherford Platt , This Green World
ISBN
0-396-09188-1
1946 -
Florence Page Jaques and
Francis Lee Jaques (illustrator), Snowshoe Country ,
ISBN
0-87351-236-7
1947 - no award
1948 -
Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher , Driftwood Valley ,
ISBN
0-87071-524-0
1949 -
Helen G. Cruickshank , Flight Into Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida
1950 -
Roger Tory Peterson , Birds Over America ,
ISBN
0-396-08269-6
1951 - no award
1952 -
Rachel Carson ,
The Sea Around Us ,
ISBN
0-451-61873-4
1953 -
Gilbert Klingel , The Bay ,
ISBN
0-8018-2536-9
1954 -
Joseph Wood Krutch , The Desert Year ,
ISBN
0-8165-0923-9
1955 -
Wallace Byron Grange and
Olaus J. Murie (illustrator), Those of the Forest ,
ISBN
1-55971-083-7
1956 -
Guy Murchie , Song of the Sky
1957 -
Archie Fairly Carr , The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores ,
ISBN
0-8130-0639-2
1958 -
Robert Porter Allen , On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds
1959 - no award
1960 -
John Kieran , A Natural History of New York City ,
ISBN
0-8232-1086-3
1961 -
Loren Eiseley , The Firmament of Time ,
ISBN
0-8032-6739-8
1962 -
George Miksch Sutton , Iceland Summer: Adventures of a Bird Painter ,
ISBN
0-8061-0491-0
1963 -
Adolph Murie , A Naturalist in Alaska ,
ISBN
0-8165-1168-3
1964 -
John Hay , The Great Beach: A Naturalist Explores the Frontier Between Land and Sea on the Outer Reaches of Cape Cod ,
ISBN
0-345-02255-6
1965 -
Paul Brooks , Roadless Area ,
ISBN
0-345-25276-4
1966 -
Louis Darling , The Gull's Way ,
ISBN
0-688-21366-9
1967 -
Charlton Ogburn, Jr. , The Winter Beach ,
ISBN
0-688-09418-X
1968 -
Hal Borland , Hill Country Harvest
1969 -
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence , The Lovely and the Wild ,
ISBN
0-920474-43-8
1970 -
Victor B. Scheffer , The Year of the Whale
1971 -
John K. Terres , From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog ,
ISBN
0-8078-4426-8
1972 -
Robert S. Arbib , The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland ,
ISBN
0-393-08639-9
1973 -
Elizabeth Barlow , The Forests and Wetlands of New York City
1974 -
Sigurd F. Olson , Wilderness Days ,
ISBN
0-394-47155-5
1975 - no award
1976 -
Ann Haymond Zwinger , Run, River, Run ,
ISBN
0-06-014824-1
1977 -
Aldo Leopold ,
A Sand County Almanac ,
ISBN
0-915024-15-2
1978 -
Ruth Kirk , The American Southwest Desert ,
ISBN
0-395-17209-8
1979 -
Barry Lopez , Of Wolves and Men ,
ISBN
0-7432-4936-4
1980 - no award
1981 -
Mary Durant and
Michael Harwood , On the Road with John James Audubon ,
ISBN
0-396-07740-4
1982 -
Peter Matthiessen , Sand Rivers ,
ISBN
0-906053-22-6
1983 -
Alexander F. Skutch , A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm ,
ISBN
0-520-03802-9
1984 -
David Rains Wallace , The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution ,
ISBN
0-520-23659-9
1985 - Mark Owens and
Delia Owens ,
Cry of the Kalahari ,
ISBN
0-395-64780-0
1986 -
Gary Paul Nabhan , Gathering the Desert ,
ISBN
0-8165-0935-2
1987 -
Robert Michael Pyle , Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land ,
ISBN
0-684-18321-8
1988 -
Tom Horton and
Charles R. Hazard (illustrator), Bay Country ,
ISBN
0-8018-3525-9
1989 -
Lawrence Kilham , On Watching Birds ,
ISBN
0-930031-14-8
1990 -
John McPhee , The Control of Nature ,
ISBN
0-374-12890-1
1991 -
Richard Nelson , The Island Within ,
ISBN
0-86547-404-4
1992 -
Kenneth S. Norris , Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin ,
ISBN
0-393-02945-X
1993 -
Vincent Dethier , Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos ,
ISBN
0-674-17577-8
1994 -
David G. Campbell , The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica ,
ISBN
0-436-20049-X
1995 -
Craig Packer , Into Africa ,
ISBN
0-226-64429-4
1996 -
Bill Green , Water, Ice and Stone:Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes ,
ISBN
0-517-58759-9
1997 -
David Quammen , The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction ,
ISBN
0-684-80083-7
1998 -
John Alcock , In a Desert Garden:Love and Death Among the Insects ,
ISBN
0-8165-1970-6
1999 -
Jan DeBlieu , Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land ,
ISBN
0-395-78033-0
2000 -
Bernd Heinrich , Mind Of the Raven ,
ISBN
0-06-017447-1
2001 -
David M. Carroll , Swampwalker's Journal ,
ISBN
0-395-64725-8
2002 -
Ken Lamberton , Wilderness and Razor Wire ,
ISBN
1-56279-116-8
2003 -
Carl Safina , Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival ,
ISBN
0-8050-6228-9
2004 -
Ted Levin , Liquid Land: A Journey Through The Florida Everglades ,
ISBN
0-8203-2512-0
2005 -
Robin Wall Kimmerer , Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses ,
ISBN
0-87071-499-6
2006 -
Donald Kroodsma , The Singing Life of Birds ,
ISBN
0-618-40568-2
2007 -
Ellen Meloy , Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild ,
ISBN
0-375-42216-1
2008 -
Julia Whitty , The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific ,
ISBN
0-618-19716-8
2009 -
Franklin Burroughs , Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay ,
ISBN
0-88448-282-0
2010 -
Michael Welland , Sand: The Never-Ending Story ,
ISBN
0-520-26597-1
2011 -
Elisabeth Tova Bailey ,
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating ,
ISBN
978-1565126060
2012 -
Edward (Ted) Hoagland , Sex and the River Styx ,
ISBN
978-1603583374
2013 -
Thor Hanson ,
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle ,
ISBN
978-0465028788
2014 -
Kathleen Jamie , Sightlines ,
ISBN
978-0956308665
2015 - Sherry Simpson, Dominion of Bears ,
ISBN
978-0700619351
2016 -
Sharman Apt Russell , Diary of a Citizen Scientist ,
ISBN
978-0870717529
[3]
2017 - Brian Doyle, Martin Marten ,
ISBN
978-1250045201
[4]
2018 -
David George Haskell , The Songs of Trees ,
ISBN
978-0525427520 ;
[5] a special John Burroughs Medal was given for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry to
Pattiann Rogers
[6]
2020 - Marilyn Sigman, Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay ,
ISBN
978-1602233485
2021 - William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees , W. W. Norton & Company, 2020
2022 -
Cal Flyn , Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape.
2023 - Kelby Ouchley, Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place ,
Louisiana State University Press .
2024 - Marina Richie, Halcyon Journey: A Search for the Belted Kingfisher,
Oregon State University Press , 2022.
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