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FOR A DISTINGUISHED BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY 1926-2002 |
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FOR A DISTINGUISHED BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY 1926-2002 |
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KEN LAMBERTON
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The John Burroughs Association was formed in 1921 shortly after the great naturalist and author died. The aim of the Association is to foster a love of nature as exemplified by Burrough's life and work and to preserve the places associated with his life. Each year the Association awards a medal to the author of a distinguished book of natural history, a list of exceptional natural history books for young readers is selected, and an outstanding nature essay is identified. Presentations of these literary awards are made during the annual meeting of the association on the first Monday of April. The winners of the medal for a distinguished book of natural history are shown in the following table.
| 2002 | Ken Lamberton & Richard Shelton | Wilderness and Razor Wire |
| 2001 | David M. Carroll | Swampwalker's Journal |
| 2000 | Bernd Heinrich | Mind of the Raven |
| 1999 | Jan DeBlieu | Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land |
| 1998 | John Alcock | In a Desert Garden |
| 1997 | David Quammen | The Song of the Dodo |
| 1996 | Bill Green | Water, Ice and Stone |
| 1995 | Craig Packer | Into Africa |
| 1994 | David G. Campbell | The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica |
| 1993 | Vincent Dethier | Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos |
| 1992 | Kenneth S. Norris | Dolphin Days |
| 1991 | Richard Nelson | The Island Within |
| 1990 | John McPhee | The Control of Nature |
| 1989 | Lawrence Kilham | On Watching Birds |
| 1988 | Tom Horton & Charles R. Hazard (illus.) | Bay Country |
| 1987 | Michael Robert Pyle | Wintergreen |
| 1986 | Gary Paul Nabhan | Gathering the Desert |
| 1985 | Mark & Delia Owens | Cry of the Kalahari |
| 1984 | David Rains Wallace | The Klamath Knot |
| 1983 | Alexander F. Skutch | A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm |
| 1982 | Peter Matthiessen | Sand Rivers |
| 1981 | Mary Durant & Michael Harwood | On the Road with John James Audubon |
| 1980 | No Award | |
| 1979 | Barry Holstun Lopez | Of Wolves and Men |
| 1978 | Ruth Kirk | The American Southwest Desert |
| 1977 | Aldo Leopold | A Sand County Almanac |
| 1976 | Ann Haymond Zwinger | Run, River, Run |
| 1975 | No Award | |
| 1974 | Sigurd F. Olson | Wilderness Days |
| 1973 | Elizabeth Barlow | The Forests and Wetlands of New York City |
| 1972 | Robert S. Arbib | The Lord's Woods |
| 1971 | John K. Terres | From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog |
| 1970 | Victor B. Scheffer | The Year of the Whale |
| 1969 | Louise de Kiriline Lawrence | The Lovely and the Wild |
| 1968 | Hal Borland | Hill Country Harvest |
| 1967 | Charlton Ogburn Jr. | The Winter Beach |
| 1966 | Louis Darling | The Gull's Way |
| 1965 | Paul Brooks | Roadless Area |
| 1964 | John Hay | The Great Beach |
| 1963 | Adolph Murie | A Naturalist in Alaska |
| 1962 | George Miksch Sutton | Iceland Summer |
| 1961 | Loren C. Eiseley | The Firmament of Time |
| 1960 | John Kieran | A Natural History of New York City |
| 1959 | No Award | |
| 1958 | Robert Porter Allen | On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds |
| 1957 | Archie Fairly Carr | The Windward Road |
| 1956 | Guy Murchie | Song of the Sky |
| 1955 | Wallace B, Grange & Olaus J. Murie (illus.) | Those of the Forest |
| 1954 | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Desert Year |
| 1953 | Gilbert Klingel | The Bay |
| 1952 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us |
| 1951 | No Award | |
| 1950 | Roger Tory Peterson | Birds Over America |
| 1949 | Helen G. Cruickshank | Flight Into Sunshine |
| 1948 | Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher | Driftwood Valley |
| 1947 | No Award | |
| 1946 | Mr, & Mrs. Francis Lee Jaques | Snowshoe Country |
| 1945 | Rutherford Platt | This Green World |
| 1944 | No Award | |
| 1943 | Edwin Way Teale | Near Horizons |
| 1942 | Edward A. Armstrong | Birds of the Grey Wind |
| 1941 | Louis J. Halle Jr. | Birds Against Men |
| 1940 | Arthur Cleveland Bent | Life Histories of North American Birds |
| 1939 | Gilbert T. Pearson | Adventures in Bird Protection |
| 1938 | Robert Cushman Murphy | Oceanic Birds of South America |
| 1937 | No Award | |
| 1936 | Charles Crawford Gorst | Recordings of Bird Calls |
| 1935 | No Award | |
| 1934 | W. W. Christman | Wild Pasture Pine |
| 1933 | Oliver P. Medsger | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter |
| 1932 | Frederick S. Dellenbaugh | A canyon Voyage |
| 1931 | No Award | |
| 1930 | Archibald Rutledge | Peace in the Heart |
| 1929 | Frank M. Chapman | Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America |
| 1928 | John Russell McCarthy | Nature Poems |
| 1927 | Ernest Thompson Seton | Lives of Game Animals |
| 1926 | William Beebe | Pheasants of the World |
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