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The Year 2000 National Arbor Day Award Honorees

Arbor Day Awards 2000

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

Leaders in tree planting, conservation, and environmental stewardship from around the country and world are honored each year by The Arbor Day Foundation at its annual Arbor Day Awards celebration held in Nebraska City, Nebraska. The awards ceremony is part of the annual Arbor Day weekend celebration held at The Arbor Day Foundation's Lied Conference Center in Nebraska City. 

Year 2000 awards were presented Saturday, April 29, 2000. Click any highlighted award winner's name to see more about their impressive stewardship projects.

  • J. Sterling Morton Award - Congressman Ralph Regula, Ohio
  • Lawrence Enersen Award - Charles Strauss, Accident, Maryland
  • Good Steward Award
    Harold and Betty Wilson, Martin, Tennessee
    Roy Malone, Dexter, Georgia
    Lyle and Laurene Shaffer, Cygnet, Ohio
    Big Cedar Lodge and Top of the Rock Golf Course, Ridgedale, Missouri
    Menominee Tribal Enterprises, Neopit, Wisconsin
  • Lady Bird Johnson Award
    Sheldon Barney, Green River, Wyoming
    Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland
  • Project Award
    Phillips Environment-Transportation-Community (ETC), Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Capital Area Greenbelt Association, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    New York Restoration Project, New York, New York
    Fauna & Flora International's Global Trees Campaign, Cambridge, England
    Iowa Buffer Alliance, Des Moines, Iowa
  • Education Award
    Huber Ridge Elementary School, Westerville, Ohio
  • Public Relations Award
    Tour des Trees, sponsored by the International Society of Arboriculture's Research Trust, Champaign, Illinois
  • Media Award
    Scott Thompson, "The Oklahoma Traveler" television journalist, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Celebration Awards
    University of Washington's Arbor Day Fair, Seattle, Washington
    1999 Minneapolis Parks Arbor Day Celebration, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Regreening Project, Spencer, South Dakota

  • Special Award
    Millennium Green, Washington, D.C.
  • International Award
    Mario Robles del Moral, Malaga, Spain
  • Promise to the Earth Award
    The Keebler Company, Elmhurst, Illinois