Only twice has the award been given to a work of fiction.
List of recipients of the John Burroughs Medal
1926 - William Beebe , Pheasants of the World 1927 - Ernest Thompson Seton , Lives of Game Animals 1928 - John Russell McCarthy, Nature Poems 1929 - Frank M. Chapman , Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America (published 1906) 1930 - Archibald Rutledge , Peace in the Heart 1931 - no award 1932 - Frederick S. Dellenbaugh , A Canyon Voyage: A Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition , ISBN 0-8165-0880-1 1933 - Oliver P. Medsker, Spring , Summer , Fall , Winter (set) 1934 - W.W. Christman, Wild Pasture Pine 1935 - no award 1936 - Charles Crawford Gorst , Recordings of Bird Calls 1937 - no award 1938 - Robert Cushman Murphy , Oceanic Birds of South America 1939 - T. Gilbert Pearson , Adventures in Bird Protection 1940 - Arthur Cleveland Bent , Life Histories of North American Birds (18 title series, United States Government Printing Office) 1941 - Louis J. Halle, Jr. , Birds Against Men 1942 - Edward A. Armstrong , Birds of the Grey Wind 1943 - Edwin Way Teale , Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden 1944 - no award 1945 - Rutherford Platt , This Green World ISBN 0-396-09188-1 1946 - Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques (illustrator), Snowshoe Country , ISBN 0-87351-236-7 1947 - no award 1948 - Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher , Driftwood Valley , ISBN 0-87071-524-0 1949 - Helen G. Cruickshank , Flight Into Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida 1950 - Roger Tory Peterson , Birds Over America , ISBN 0-396-08269-6 1951 - no award 1952 - Rachel Carson , The Sea Around Us , ISBN 0-451-61873-4 1953 - Gilbert Klingel , The Bay , ISBN 0-8018-2536-9 1954 - Joseph Wood Krutch , The Desert Year , ISBN 0-8165-0923-9 1955 - Wallace Byron Grange and Olaus J. Murie (illustrator), Those of the Forest , ISBN 1-55971-083-7 1956 - Guy Murchie , Song of the Sky 1957 - Archie Fairly Carr , The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores , ISBN 0-8130-0639-2 1958 - Robert Porter Allen , On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds 1959 - no award 1960 - John Kieran , A Natural History of New York City , ISBN 0-8232-1086-3 1961 - Loren Eiseley , The Firmament of Time , ISBN 0-8032-6739-8 1962 - George Miksch Sutton , Iceland Summer: Adventures of a Bird Painter , ISBN 0-8061-0491-0 1963 - Adolph Murie , A Naturalist in Alaska , ISBN 0-8165-1168-3 1964 - John Hay , The Great Beach: A Naturalist Explores the Frontier Between Land and Sea on the Outer Reaches of Cape Cod , ISBN 0-345-02255-6 1965 - Paul Brooks , Roadless Area , ISBN 0-345-25276-4 1966 - Louis Darling , The Gull's Way , ISBN 0-688-21366-9 1967 - Charlton Ogburn, Jr. , The Winter Beach , ISBN 0-688-09418-X 1968 - Hal Borland , Hill Country Harvest 1969 - Louise de Kiriline Lawrence , The Lovely and the Wild , ISBN 0-920474-43-8 1970 - Victor B. Scheffer , The Year of the Whale 1971 - John K. Terres , From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog , ISBN 0-8078-4426-8 1972 - Robert S. Arbib , The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland , ISBN 0-393-08639-9 1973 - Elizabeth Barlow , The Forests and Wetlands of New York City 1974 - Sigurd F. Olson , Wilderness Days , ISBN 0-394-47155-5 1975 - no award 1976 - Ann Haymond Zwinger , Run, River, Run , ISBN 0-06-014824-1 1977 - Aldo Leopold , A Sand County Almanac , ISBN 0-915024-15-2 1978 - Ruth Kirk , The American Southwest Desert , ISBN 0-395-17209-8 1979 - Barry Lopez , Of Wolves and Men , ISBN 0-7432-4936-4 1980 - no award 1981 - Mary Durant and Michael Harwood , On the Road with John James Audubon , ISBN 0-396-07740-4 1982 - Peter Matthiessen , Sand Rivers , ISBN 0-906053-22-6 1983 - Alexander F. Skutch , A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm , ISBN 0-520-03802-9 1984 - David Rains Wallace , The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution , ISBN 0-520-23659-9 1985 - Mark Owens and Delia Owens , Cry of the Kalahari , ISBN 0-395-64780-0 1986 - Gary Paul Nabhan , Gathering the Desert , ISBN 0-8165-0935-2 1987 - Robert Michael Pyle , Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land , ISBN 0-684-18321-8 1988 - Tom Horton and Charles R. Hazard (illustrator), Bay Country , ISBN 0-8018-3525-9 1989 - Lawrence Kilham , On Watching Birds , ISBN 0-930031-14-8 1990 - John McPhee , The Control of Nature , ISBN 0-374-12890-1 1991 - Richard Nelson , The Island Within , ISBN 0-86547-404-4 1992 - Kenneth S. Norris , Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin , ISBN 0-393-02945-X 1993 - Vincent Dethier , Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos , ISBN 0-674-17577-8 1994 - David G. Campbell , The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica , ISBN 0-436-20049-X 1995 - Craig Packer , Into Africa , ISBN 0-226-64429-4 1996 - Bill Green, Water, Ice and Stone:Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes , ISBN 0-517-58759-9 1997 - David Quammen , The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction , ISBN 0-684-80083-7 1998 - John Alcock , In a Desert Garden:Love and Death Among the Insects , ISBN 0-8165-1970-6 1999 - Jan DeBlieu , Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land , ISBN 0-395-78033-0 2000 - Bernd Heinrich , Mind Of the Raven , ISBN 0-06-017447-1 2001 - David M. Carroll , Swampwalker's Journal , ISBN 0-395-64725-8 2002 - Ken Lamberton , Wilderness and Razor Wire , ISBN 1-56279-116-8 2003 - Carl Safina , Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival , ISBN 0-8050-6228-9 2004 - Ted Levin, Liquid Land: A Journey Through The Florida Everglades , ISBN 0-8203-2512-0 2005 - Robin Wall Kimmerer , Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses , ISBN 0-87071-499-6 2006 - Donald Kroodsma , The Singing Life of Birds , ISBN 0-618-40568-2 2007 - Ellen Meloy , Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild , ISBN 0-375-42216-1 2008 - Julia Whitty, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific , ISBN 0-618-19716-8 2009 - Franklin Burroughs , Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay , ISBN 0-88448-282-0 2010 - Michael Welland , Sand: The Never-Ending Story , ISBN 0-520-26597-1 2011 - Elisabeth Tova Bailey , The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating , ISBN 978-1565126060 2012 - Edward (Ted) Hoagland , Sex and the River Styx , ISBN 978-1603583374 2013 - Thor Hanson , Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle , ISBN 978-0465028788 2014 - Kathleen Jamie , Sightlines , ISBN 978-0956308665 2015 - Sherry Simpson, Dominion of Bears , ISBN 978-0700619351 2016 - Sharman Apt Russell , Diary of a Citizen Scientist , ISBN 978-0870717529 2017 - Brian Doyle, Martin Marten , ISBN 978-1250045201 2018 - David George Haskell , The Songs of Trees , ISBN 978-0525427520 ; a special John Burroughs Medal was given for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry to Pattiann Rogers 2020 - Marilyn Sigman, Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay , ISBN 978-1602233485 References
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