Arkansas Sierra Club Annual Conservation Awards ("WOODY AWARDS")

2003 Conservation Awards Banquet

• Sierran of the Year
  • Susan Sims (Little Rock; Central Arkansas Group Chair)
• Environmental Organization
  • Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association (Fayetteville)
• Environmental Reporting
• Scott Davis (Morning News of NW Arkansas)
• Public Servant
  • Steve Parker (Tri-County Solid Waste District Director)
• Elected Public Official (co-winners)
  • Lioneld Jordan (Fayetteville City Council)

• Don Marr (Fayetteville City Council)

• Environmental Business
• Bank of Fayetteville
• Activist of the Year
  • Andrea Radwell (OHG; Eureka Springs, AR)

• Environmental Miscreant Anti-Award
  • Arkansas Farm Bureau
• Student Sierran of the Year
  • Candace Furniss (University of the Ozarks)
• Senior Sierran of the Year
  • Barry Weaver (Jasper, AR)

• Unsung Environmental Hero
  • Gregg Galbraith (Founder and President, Ozark Regional Land Trust)
• Outstanding New Member
  • Sarah Keith (Little Rock; Arkansas Chapter Chair)

• Arkansas Conservationist of the Year
  • Jim Wood (Arkansas Wildlife Federation)

   

2000 Conservation Awards Banquet

• Sierran of the Year
  • Fran Alexander (Fayetteville):

Through the Friends for Fayetteville, Fran has lead an effort to plant more street side trees in Fayetteville and surrounding communities. Since 1997, they have raised over 600 seedlings and have donated trees for the Fayetteville City Parks.

Fran Alexander received the "Sierra of the Year" award for her work through Friends for Fayetteville in planting trees throughout Fayetteville and for her work in preventing larger scale tree cutting and channelization work in Greathouse Park, a city park in Fayetteville.

• Environmental Organization
  • We've Had Enough (Fayetteville)

For their work on the CMN and the Tree Preservation Ordinance.

• Environmental Educator
  • Ellen Neaville

Ellen is a longtime friend of environmental education in Northwest Arkansas. Her experience ranges from over a decade of experience teaching science in the Rogers Public School District to helping establish the integrity for the Ozark Natural Science Center as as educational facility promoting the application of environmental education across the board. Ellen has facilitated AEGIS Gifted and Talented programs for over eight years, while also finding time to serve on the boards of the Arkansas Heritage Commission and the Arkansas Environmental Education Association, respectively. Ellen will be leaving the Ozarks to purse Ph.D. work in Connecticut at the end of this year.

Mina Marsh accepts the Environmental Educator of the Year Award for Ellen Neaville. Ellen received the award for her long-term environmental education efforts in the Rogers High School and for her efforts in establishing the Northwest Arkansas Environmental Education Center.

• Environmental Publication
  • Newton County Wildlife Association Newsletter

Their quarterly newsletter keeps all who care about the Ozark National Forest up to date on what's happening in the woods and their attention to Forest Service policy helps us all keep our eyes on the forest.

• Public Servant
  • Dave Mott

Dave is with the U.S. Park Serviced, Buffalo National River and his efforts to protect the Buffalo River watershed have been exemplary within the Department of the Interior.

• Environmental Business
  • Bob Jordan (Fayetteville)

Bob is a Fayetteville businessman who played a principal role in organizing a grassroots movement against the City's continuing failure to enforced its Tree Preservation Ordinance and other development ordinances. The organization that emerged under Bob's leadership, We've Had Enough, now has a prominent presence in city politics and administration. As Sierrans say, when it comes to environmental organizations, the more the merrier.

Bob Jordan accepts the Best Business of the Year Award for Sherlock Homes home inspection. He was also one of the primary founders of "We've Had Enough" a group of small business owners who worked to enforce Fayetteville's Tree Preservation Ordinance. Bob also accepted the award for Environmental Organization of the Year on behalf of the winner, "We've Enough."

• Doublespeak/Earl Butz
  • Blanche Lincoln

For completely selling out her party and her constituents on the TMDL issue.

The Earl Butz/Doublespeak Award which went to Senator Blanche Lincoln for her opposition to non-point source water pollution regulations that are badly needed to protect Arkansas's streams and lakes from agricultural and urban runoff pollution. The program is voluntary in nature under existing state regulations, but Senator Lincoln opposed it anyway.

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