COLORADO/WYOMING AFS CHAPTER

 

AWARDS

 

Nominate a coworker for a chapter award

 

The Colorado/Wyoming Chapter has three award classifications for recognizing our fisheries professionals and the Awards Committee needs your help in determining qualified candidates.  This is an opportunity for you to become involved and see that your professional peers receive the deserved recognition from this Society.  Please take a moment and think about your professional peers that have made significant contributions and accomplishments to our aquatic resources.  It is your responsibility to make sure our professionals receive this recognition.  Send your list of candidates to Kathy Foster or Kelly Todd.

 

The following are the awards and criteria.

 

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

• Significant efforts in the advancement of the fisheries’ profession, beyond routine expectations.
• A milestone work contributing to the understanding/conservation/management of aquatic resources.
• Original advancement or innovations in fishery research, culture, or management techniques.
• Significant contributions, via public education and participation to conservation of aquatic resources.
• Imaginative and successful programs in aquatic resource conservation education.
• Leadership in recognition/development of habitat issues that lead to a legislation/policy that protect/enhance the aquatic resource.
• Development of aquatic research, culture or management programs of regional or national significance.
• Important ecological discoveries or new taxonomic criteria.
• New philosophies or ideas that contribute to the understanding or management of aquatic resources.

 

“MAX” AWARD of MERIT

• “Atta Boy or Girl” award for a job well done, an outstanding effort in aquatic resource conservation, a major contribution to the well being of the fisheries’ professions, creation of a new “whiz bang” idea or any act that elicits that warm all over feeling.  This award generally recognizes significant short-term accomplishments.
• All persons associated with water resources, regardless of affiliation are eligible for this ward.

 

LEAKY BOOT AWARD

• This is an award for recognition of extreme decadence even beyond the norms for a fish squeezer.  It recognizes the most outrageous behavior in the year subsequent to the Chapter’s annual meeting.  The benefits is to show that all persons have value, even if it’s only for use as an example of initiative gone awry.

 

• This award can be given to any fisheries student or professional, even if they might not want it.

 

CLOSING THOUGHTS

 

Please take some time and think about your peers that deserved recognition.  Our goal is to make Chapter awards significant and truly reflect our recognition of our peers and others that help the fishery and aquatic resource.  We need your nominations to make this work.  Include a description of the contributions or accomplishments that qualify the nominee for the award. 

 

Please submit your nominations by January 31, 2003, attention:

 

Kathy Foster, Medicine Bow – Routt National Forests, 925 Weiss Drive, Steamboat Springs, CO 80487, (970) 870-2219, Fax (970) 870-2284, email kfoster02@fs.fed.us

 

Or

 

Kelly Todd, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, PO Box 427, Dubois, WY 82513 (307-455-2431), Fax (307-455-3129), email Kelly.Todd@wgf.state.wy.us