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Awards Ceremony 2008
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Recipients
(click names to learn more about award
recipients, click photos to enlarge)
Nebraska Land Stewardship Award:
The Christen
Family of Pawnee County
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The Christen
Family is recognized for the outstanding habitat management
and conservation activities they have implemented on their
land. The Christen Family includes Richard and Sharon, their
daughter Kay and son Rod, and Rod’s wife Amy and their
children Dana and Leah. The Christen Family’s land
stewardship practices have improved the sustainability of
the natural resources on their property, improved the
feasibility of annual prairie management, and created a
diversity of tallgrass prairie habitats resulting in
increased avian diversity in their area. They have served as
leaders in their community by eagerly sharing and
demonstrating their management practices, and by serving on
the boards of several land stewardship organizations.
From left: Amy, Leah, Dana
and Rod Christen |
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Outstanding Bird Conservation Award:
The Saline
Wetlands Conservation Partnership
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The Saline
Wetlands Conservation Partnership has demonstrated
outstanding leadership, success, and partnership-building in
the field of avian conservation in Nebraska. This award
recognizes the willingness of every partner involved to go
above and beyond in the conservation of Nebraska’s most rare
and threatened natural community: the Eastern Saline
Wetlands. Full-share partners include The Nature
Conservancy, The City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Lower
Platte South NRD, and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. |
NPABC
Steering Committee Chair Jim Douglas (right) presents the OBC Award
to the SWCP. From left to right: John Heaston (The Nature
Conservancy), Dan Schulz (Lower Platte South NRD), Ted LaGrange
(Nebraska Game and Parks Commission), Terry Genrich (City of Lincoln
and Lancaster County) and Tom Malmstrom (SWCP Coordinator). The
award is a Piping Plover (one of Nebraska's endangered birds) carved
by
Don Gabelhouse.
Photo by Ed Pembleton,©
2008.
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Chairman's Award:
Steve Moran - Coordinator,
Rainwater Basin Joint Venture
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Steve’s vision,
leadership and inter-personal skills have allowed the RWBJV
to become a model for partnerships in habitat conservation.
He has a remarkable ability to listen to the
perspectives of partners and landowners and develop win-win
solutions that meet the needs of everyone involved,
including birds and other wildlife.
Steve’s efforts
have contributed to the restoration of thousands of acres of
wetlands on private land in south central Nebraska. He has
helped change the conservation culture in the Rainwater
Basin region.
NPABC Steering
Committee Chair presents the Chairman's Award to Steve
Moran. The award is a Long-billed Curlew, symbolic of
Nebraska's grasslands, and magnificently carved by
Don Gabelhouse.
Photo by Ed Pembleton, ©
2008. |
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The Piping Plover and Long-billed Curlew
presented to our award recipients were masterfully carved by
Don Gabelhouse. Don is an expert carver of
mantelpiece decoys, and is
located in Lincoln, NE. He may be reached at (402) 420-1744. |
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Awards Ceremony 2007
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Recipients
(click names to learn more about award
recipients)
 Outstanding Bird Conservation Award:
The Nebraska Chapters of Pheasants
Forever
The Nebraska chapters of Pheasants Forever have shown outstanding
leadership, ingenuity, success, partnership-building, and volunteerism in
the field of avian conservation in Nebraska. This award recognizes PF’s
ability to take the grass-roots enthusiasm generated by the immense
popularity of pheasants, and put it to work for habitat improvements that
benefit not just pheasants, but a wide variety of birds and other wildlife.
NPABC Steering
Committee Chair Rob Ravenscroft presents Pete Berthelsen, Senior
Field Coordinator for Pheasants Forever, with the
award, a Piping Plover (one of Nebraska's endangered birds) carved
by Don Gabelhouse.
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The Chairman's Award:
Dr.
Paul Johnsgard, Ornithologist, Author, and Professor
Dr. Paul Johnsgard has shown outstanding leadership through
the dedication of his abundant life not only to the study
and conservation of birds, but perhaps most notably to
teaching and writing prolifically about birds and their
habitats. He has contributed voluntarily to numerous efforts
to further our understanding and appreciation of both the
ecological and humanitarian significance of birds, wildlife,
and the wild places in which they live.
Paul Johnsgard receives a Long-billed Curlew,
symbolic of Nebraska's grasslands, also magnificently carved by Mr. Gabelhouse. |
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Silent
Auction
The Annual NPABC Awards Ceremony is supported by the
Silent Auction held during the Rivers and Wildlife
Celebration each year. Please consider donating items to be
auctioned on behalf of your organization or agency. |
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Awards Ceremony 2006 |
The first annual NPABC Awards Ceremony was dedicated to the memory
of John Dinan, whose extraordinary achievements for the conservation
of Nebraska’s birds has left an enduring legacy. John worked for the
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for 28 years, and served as the
Non-game Bird Program Manager from 1994 until his passing in August
2005 due to leukemia. John’s commitment to the preservation of all
birds, and his wisdom in understanding that conservation can only
succeed where good science is combined with engaging the people who
care about the resource and are impacted by conservation efforts,
inspired him to help found the NPABC in 2002. His achievements were
commemorated through a slide presentation at the beginning of the
Awards Ceremony. |
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Recipients
(click names to learn more about award
recipients)
 Outstanding Bird Conservation Award:
Cris Carnine for
Nebraska Prairie Partners
Cris Carnine has shown outstanding leadership as Coordinator of
Nebraska Prairie Partners, a joint undertaking by the Nebraska Game
& Parks Commission and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory to build
a coalition of landowners and land managers who are actively
involved in the conservation of lands important to prairie birds.
NPABC Steering
Committee Chair Gloria Erickson presents Cris Carnine with her
award, a Piping Plover (one of Nebraska's endangered birds) carved
by Don Gabelhouse. Paul Tebbel receives a Long-billed Curlew,
symbolic of Nebraska's grasslands. |
The Chairman's Award:
Paul Tebbel,
Director of Audubon's Rowe Sanctuary
Paul Tebbel has shown outstanding leadership as Director of
Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary and as acting Director of Audubon Nebraska
for nearly ten years. His tremendous contributions to education,
research, management, and the Central Platte community have had a
resounding impact on our appreciation of Sandhill Cranes and the
central Nebraska migration spectacle. |
| The Piping Plover and Long-billed Curlew
presented to our award recipients were masterfully carved by
Don Gabelhouse. Don is an expert carver of
mantelpiece decoys, and is
located in Lincoln, NE. He may be reached at (402) 420-1744. |
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