WINNERS OF THE JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL
1926-2000
- 1926, William Beebe, Pheasants
of the World, New York Zoological Company.
- 1927, Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives
of Game Animals, Charles Scribner's Sons.
- 1928, John Russell McCarthy, Nature
Poems,Publisher Unknown.
- 1929, Frank M. Chapman, Handbook
of Birds of Eastern North America (1906),
Appleton.
- 1930, Archibald Rutledge, Peace
in the Heart, Doubleday.
- 1931, NO AWARD.
- 1932, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, A
Canyon Voyage,Publisher Unknown.
- 1933, Oliver P. Medsger; Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter (set), Wayne.
- 1934, W.W. Christman, Wild
Pasture Pine, The Argus Company.
- 1935, NO AWARD.
- 1936, Charles Crawford Gorst, Recordings
of Bird Calls, Publisher Unknown.
- 1937, NO AWARD.
- 1938, Robert Cushman Murphy, Oceanic
Birds of South America, American Museum of
Natural History.
- 1939, Gilbert T. Pearson, Adventures
in Bird Protection, Appleton.
- 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, The Viking Press.
- 1942, Edward A. Armstrong, Birds
of the Grey Wind, Oxford.
- 1943, Edwin Way Teale, Near
Horizons, Dodd, Mead.
- 1944, NO AWARD.
- 1945, Rutherford Platt, This
Green World, Dodd, Mead.
- 1946, Mr. & Mrs. Francis Lee Jaques, Snowshoe Country, University
of Minnesota Press.
- 1947, NO AWARD.
- 1948, Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher, Driftwood Valley,Little.
- 1949, Helen G. Cruickshank, Flight
Into Sunshine, Macmillan.
- 1950, Roger Tory Peterson, Birds
Over America, Dodd, Mead.
- 1951, NO AWARD.
- 1952, Rachel Carson, The Sea
Around Us, Oxford University Press.
- 1953, Gilbert Klingel, The Bay,
Dodd, Mead.
- 1954, Joseph Wood Krutch,The
Desert Year, Bobbs.
- 1955, Wallace B. Grange; Olaus J. Murie (illustrator), Those of the Forest,
Devin-Adair.
- 1956, Guy Murchie, Song of the
Sky, Houghton Mifflin.
- 1957, Archie Fairly Carr, The
Windward Road, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- 1958, Robert Porter Allen, On
the Trail of the Vanishing Birds, McGraw-Hill.
- 1959, NO AWARD.
- 1960, John Kieran, A Natural
History of New York City, Houghton Mifflin.
- 1961, Loren C. Eiseley, The
Firmament of Time, Random House.
- 1962, George Miksch Sutton, Iceland
Summer, University of Oklahoma Press.
- 1963, Adolph Murie, A Naturalist
in Alaska, Devin-Adair.
- 1964, John Hay, The Great Beach,
Doubleday.
- 1965, Paul Brooks, Roadless Area,
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- 1966, Louis Darling, The Gull's
Way, Morrow.
- 1967, Charlton Ogburn, Jr., The
Winter Beach, Morrow.
- 1968, Hal Borland, Hill Country
Harvest, Lippincott.
- 1969, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, The Lovely and the Wild,
McGraw-Hill.
- 1970, Victor B. Scheffer, The
Year of the Whale, Charles Scribner's Sons.
- 1971, John K. Terres, From
Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog, Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc.
- 1972, Robert S. Arbib, The
Lord's Woods, Norton.
- 1973, Elizabeth Barlow, The
Forests and Wetlands of New York City, Little,
Brown.
- 1974, Sigurd F. Olson, Wilderness
Days, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- 1975, NO AWARD.
- 1976, Ann Haymond Zwinger, Run,
River, Run, Harper and Row.
- 1977, Aldo Leopold, ASand County
Almanac, Tamarac-Oxford.
- 1978, Ruth Kirk, The American
Southwest Desert, Houghton Mifflin.
- 1979, Barry Holstun Lopez, Of
Wolves and Men, Charles Scribner's Sons.
- 1980, NO AWARD.
- 1981, Mary Durant & Michael Harwood, On the Road with John James Audubon,
Dodd, Mead.
- 1982, Peter Matthiessen, Sand
Rivers, The Viking Press.
- 1983, Alexander F. Skutch, A
Naturalist on a Tropical Farm, University of
California Press.
- 1984, David Rains Wallace, The
Klamath Knot, Sierra Club Books.
- 1985, Mark & Delia Owens, Cry
of the Kalahari, Houghton Mifflin.
- 1986, Gary Paul Nabhan, Gathering
the Desert, University of Arizona Press.
- 1987, Michael Robert Pyle, Wintergreen,
Charles Scribner's Sons.
- 1988, Tom Horton; Charles R. Hazard (illustrator), Bay Country, Johns Hopkins
University Press.
- 1989, Lawrence Kilham, On
Watching Birds, Chelsea Green.
- 1990, John McPhee, The Control
of Nature, Farrar Strauss Giroux.
- 1991, Richard Nelson, The Island
Within, North Point Press.
- 1992, Kenneth S. Norris, Dolphin
Days, W.W. Norton and Co.
- 1993, Vincent Dethier, Crickets
and Katydids, Concerts and Solos, Harvard
University Press.
- 1994, David G. Campbell, The
Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica,
Houghton MIfflin.
- 1995, Craig Packer, Into Africa,
University of Chicago Press.
- 1996, Bill Green, Water, Ice and
Stone, Harmony Books.
- 1997, David Quammen, The Song Of The Dodo,Scribner.
- 1998, John Alcock, In a Desert Garden,
W.W. Norton.
- 1999, Jan DeBlieu, Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land., Houghton Mifflin.
- 2000, Bernd Heindrich, Mind Of the Raven, HarperCollins.