Honor Awards
The Society for Range Management honor awards program recognizes members and non-members who have made outstanding contributions to the science and art of range management. Now is the time to begin preparing nominations for individuals who deserve recognition. For a nomination application, click here.
The Society Honor Awards are:
- Frederic G. Renner Award-- The premier
Society award requires SRM membership and sustained accomplishments or
contributions to range management during the last ten
years. Includes honorarium.
- 2010 Recipient - Dr. James T. O'Rourke
- Historical List of Recipients
- W.R. Chapline Land Stewardship Award-- Requires SRM membership and effective maintenance or
improvement of range resources with lasting efforts. Includes
honorarium.
- 2010 Recipient - Ben Berlinger
- Historical List of Recipients
- W.R. Chapline Research Award-- Requires SRM
membership and exceptional and sustained research accomplishments related
to rangelands. Includes honorarium.
- 2010 Recipient - No Recipient
- Historical List of Recipients
- Sustained Lifetime Achievement Award-- Designed to
recognize SRM members for long-term contributions to SRM and range
management. Requires tangible evidence of outstanding lifetime
contributions to the art and science of range management and continued SRM
involvement at both the Section and Society levels.
- 2010 Recipients -
- Historical List of Recipients
- Fellow Award-- Requires SRM membership, continuous for at least ten years, in recognition of service and contributions to the Society.
- Outstanding Achievement
Award-- SRM membership not required. Awarded for outstanding achievement (eminently
noteworthy) in any range management-related area. Organizations
(e.g., agencies, commodity groups) are not eligible for this
award. Teams, whose accomplishments are individually
inseparable, are eligible.
- The Outstanding Achievement Award has been subdivided into two groups: Research and Academia; and Stewardship (ranchers, agency professionals, consultants). Each group will be ranked separately. If enough nominations are not received in either group, then the balance to be awarded in any given year will be considered from the other group.
- 2010 Research/Academia Recipients -
- Historical List of Recipients
- 2010 Stewardship Recipients -
- Historical List of Recipients
- Outstanding Young Range Professional Award-- Requires SRM membership and recognizes superior performance and leadership potential in any range-related area. Nominee must be less than 40 years of age on January 1st of the year the award is conferred.
- Outstanding Rangeland Manager
- Trail Boss Club Award-- The President and the Board of Directors of SRM have reserved to
themselves the discretion of recognizing with the Trail Boss Club award individuals, firms, or organizations contributing $10,000.00 or more to the Society for Range Management.
- 2008 Recipient - James B. Newman
- Special Awards
- Leadership in organizing and planning of the Ecological Site Description as a
Management Tool Workshop
- Historical List of Recipients
- Leadership in organizing and planning of the Ecological Site Description as a
Management Tool Workshop
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