The John Burroughs Medal ,[ 1] John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association [ 2] 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] 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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