Requires SRM membership and effective maintenance or improvement of range resources with lasting efforts. Includes honorarium.

2014 - Recipient - Dr. Melvin R. George
2013 - Recipient - Barry W. Adams
2012 - Recipient - No Award Given
2011 - Recipient - Dr. L. Roy Roath
2010 - Ben Berlinger

2009 - Leonard N. "Bud" Purdy

2008 - Dr. Wayne Hanselka

2007 - F. Stephen Hartmann

2006 - Desert Land & Livestock: Gregg Simonds, Rick Danvir, and Bill Hopkin

2005 - Dennis Becenti

2004 - Norman R. McClure

2003 - S. Wesley Hyatt

2002 - Wallace C. Butler

2001 - Jack Maddux

2000 - Ray Banister

1999 - Walter Fick, Sr.

1998 - Josiah T. Austin

1997 - Clarence Mortenson

1996 - Willard P. Phillips

1995 - Charles M. Jarecki

1994 - Philip Robbins

1993 - Doc and Connie Hatfield

1992 - Robert L. Ross

1991 - William E. Armstrong

1991 - Donnie E. Harmel

1990 - Lee A. Sharp

1989 - Billy L. Carr

1988 - John A. Pierce

1987 - John L. Merrill, Jr.