2025
Officer Joseph Apodaca, New Mexico State Parks
Officer Nicholas Apodaca, New Mexico State Parks
2024
Officer Specialist Gilbrando Resendez, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Sergeant Nate Thompson, Clackamas County Sheriff's Office
2023
No award given.
2022
Luke Martinez, Curry County Sheriff’s Office
2021
John Alexiou, City of Monterey Fire Department
2020
Corporal Stacey Mosher,
Missouri State Highway Patrol
2019
No award given.
2018 No award given.
2017
No award given.
2016 Cpl. Joshua Underwood, St. Johns County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office.
2015 Police Chief Steven Crown and Deputy Chief Michael Cenci, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Police
2014 Captain Mike England, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
2013 Peter Gionet, New York Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation
2012 James Knauss, King County (Washington) Sheriff's Office
2011 Stephen Verchinski, New Mexico State Parks
2010 Conservation Warden Marty Stone, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
2009 Rick Barrera, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
2008 Emily King, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
2007 John Annino, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
2006 Joe McCullough, Alaska Department of Natural Resources
2005 Dolores Farrell, California Boating & Waterways
2004 Mark Brown, Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Tim Smalley, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2003 Dan Martin, Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission
2002 Jeff Decker, Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries
2001 Sergeant Paul Kennedy, Missouri State Water Patrol
2000 Officer David Scheler, Maryland Natural Resources Police
1999 Lt. Brett Norton, Florida Game & Fresh Water Fish Commission
1998 Emily King, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
1997 Marty Law, Oregon State Marine Board
1996 Officer John Anderson, Florida Game & Fresh Water Fish Commission
1995 Ann Van Buren, Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation
1994 Virgil Chambers, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
1993 Pamela Dillon, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
1992 Lt. David Street, Maryland Department of Natural Resources