Wild South seeks nominations for 7th annual Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Awards

Posted on — Jeff Fobes

Wild South announces:

Wild South invites the public to submit nominations for its 7th Annual Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Awards. On March 20, 2015, four individuals and one business will be honored for their outstanding contributions to environmental conservation in the South during the past year. The Awards will be presented at Wild South’s Green Gala in Asheville, N.C., which annually celebrates and recognizes exceptional work in conservation.To nominate a person or organization and review previous award winners, visit www.wildsouth.org/nominations/ <http://www.wildsouth.org/nominations/> by midnight February 14, 2015. Awards will be given in each of 5 categories:

Outstanding Journalist – Outstanding Youth – Outstanding Educator
Outstanding Small Business – Outstanding Conservationist

Nominations are reviewed and scored by an independent volunteer Selection Committee. This year, the committee includes:

  • Ginger Dollar, Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
  • JJ Apodaca, Professor of Conservation Biology, Warren Wilson College
  • Dusty Allison, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine
  • Kelly Sheehan Martin, Sierra Club NC Beyond Coal Campaign
  • Pete Conroy, Jacksonville State University, AL
  • Todd Witcher, Exec. Director, Discover Life in America, GSMNP, TN
  • Kim Porter, Director of Development, Environmental Paper Network
  • Katie Hicks, Clean Water For North Carolina
  • Jamie Ager, Hickory Nut Gap Farm, NC
  • Ching Fu, Outdoor Programs and Outreach Market Coordinator, REI, NC
  • Marin Leroy, Evergreen Community Charter School, NC
  • Roald Hazelhoff, Birmingham Southern College, AL

Wild South named this award series for President Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. W.W. Ashe. Their conservation values mirror our own and we pay homage to their landmark work to protect forests in the South and across the United States.

Wild South is a regional non-profit organization that inspires people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South. We have protected over a half million acres of public lands, thousands of miles of streams, and hundreds of cultural sites. Wild South is the voice of our public lands, forests, and waters as people across the region band together to save wild places and wild things that we all love. For more information, visit www.wildsouth.org <http://www.wildsouth.org/> .
Wild South
16 Eagle St Suite 200
Asheville, NC 28801
828.258.2667
www.wildsouth.org <http://www.wildsouth.org/>

SHARE
About Jeff Fobes
As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes
View all posts by Jeff Fobes →

Before you comment

The comments section is here to provide a platform for civil dialogue on the issues we face together as a local community. Xpress is committed to offering this platform for all voices, but when the tone of the discussion gets nasty or strays off topic, we believe many people choose not to participate. Xpress editors are determined to moderate comments to ensure a constructive interchange is maintained. All comments judged not to be in keeping with the spirit of civil discourse will be removed and repeat violators will be banned. See here for our terms of service. Thank you for being part of this effort to promote respectful discussion.

Leave a Reply

To leave a reply you may Login with your Mountain Xpress account, connect socially or enter your name and e-mail. Your e-mail address will not be published. All fields are required.