List of William T. Hornaday Award Gold Medal recipients

The William T. Hornaday Award was created in 1915 to recognize major contributions to and service in environmental conservation, and is one of the rarest awards available in Boy Scouting. The Gold Medal was created in 1975 to honor adult Scouters with lifetime service of more than twenty years and lasting impact in multi-state regions, nationally, or internationally. Though the statutes for the Gold Medal limit annual awards to no more than six recipients, only about forty-six people have been awarded the Gold Medal since its creation in 1975. Previously, a few awards for lifetime merit were given in other, lower grades that are now exclusive to youth Scouts for their conservation efforts. The William T. Hornaday Award Gold Badge was created in 2000 to recognize conservationists with lesser influential service of more than three years. The following is a partial list of known Hornaday Award recipients who were recognized for lifetime service in conservation.

- 1917 - Margaret Olivia Sage (1828-1918) - for a lifetime of philanthropy and for establishing Marsh Island Wildlife Preserve, in Alabama

- 1917 - Drew William Standrod (1858-1942) - for persuading the Idaho Legislature to pass laws protecting the sage grouse

- 1917 - Dr. Thomas Calderwood Stephens (1876-1948) - Professor of Biology at Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa; awarded for leadership in reintroducing quail and grouse to the Iowa ecosystem

- 1917 - Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) - the "Father of Wildlife Ecology and Environmental Ethics"

- 1982 - John F. Shanklin - for over 35 years conservation service with the National Park Service. He was a forest inspector with the Civilian Conservation Corps for nine years prior to World War Two. He worked directly for the Secretary of the Interior as the director of forests through 1962, and for the last 20 years of his career as assistant director for Federal coordination, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation.

- 1991 - Harold Hill - for conservation work in Alabama

- 1991 - Dr. J. William Shiner - for his career as professor of park and resource management at Slippery Rock University, PA, as Chairman of the Conservation Committee for five National Scout Jamborees, and his work as Chairman of the Blue Ridge Mountains Council Conservation Committee.

- 2006 - Robert Sturtevant - for teaching forestry in Ethiopia for the Peace Corps; Fellow, Society of American Foresters and John Beale Memorial Award recipient: and for work as a member of the Visiting Forester Committee, Philmont Scout Ranch

- 2007 - Dr. Jeffrey Marion - PhD. in Recreation Resources Management; for his career as a professor of forest resources and environmental conservation, and as a founding member of the board of directors of Leave No Trace. He was awarded the William T. Hornaday Gold Badge by the Blue Ridge Mountains Council, 2006.

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