John Burroughs Medal

John Burroughs Medal

The John Burroughs Medal, named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837-1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural history.

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 - Gilbert T. 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


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