Award winners are recognized for their leadership in the cause of tree planting, conservation, and environmental stewardship.

Leaders in tree planting and environmental stewardship from around the country and world were honored by The Arbor Day Foundation at its 27th annual Arbor Day Awards celebration held in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on Saturday, May 1, 1999. The awards ceremony was part of the annual Arbor Day weekend celebration held in Nebraska City from April 30 - May 2.

• J. Sterling Morton Award - Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago, IL

• Lawrence Enersen Awards 
  Joe Stonis, Cape Coral, FL
  Jack Herschend, Branson, MO
  

• Good Steward Awards 
  The Forest Discovery Center, Koetter Woodworking, Starlight, IN
  Eloise McClendon, Attalla, AL

• Lady Bird Johnson Award
  The Garden Club of Stone Harbor, Stone Harbor, NJ
  The Wilshire Center Streetscape Project, Los Angeles, CA
  

• Project Awards
  The Living Memorial Tree Planting Program of the Batesville Casket Company, Batesville, IN
  The Chesapeake Bay Youth Conservation Corps of Chesapeake, VA
  The New York City Parks and Recreation Department
  The Rotary Greenway Project, Indianapolis, IN
  The Omaha World-Herald Branching Out Program, Omaha, NE

• Education Awards
  Andersen Middle School, Omaha, NE
  Cenla Pride Environment Museum and Camp,
  Alexandria, VA
  Place Middle School, Denver, CO

• Advertising and Public Relations Award
  The Idaho Arbor Day Coalition, Boise, ID

• Media Awards
  Forests of Hope: Stories of Regeneration, by Christian Kuchli
  The Forest Where We Live, produced by Louisiana Public Television

• Celebration Awards
  DeKalb's First Arbor Day Celebration, DeKalb, IL
  Missouri Department of Conservation's “Arbor Week Activity Guide”
  Ted Nugent, Jackson, MI
  

• Promise to the Earth Awards
  The film FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue and its makers and distributors,
  Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Beverly Hills, CA
  Triangle Pacific Flooring Group, Addison, TX
  Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL