Wisconsin Lake Stewardship Awards
Nomination Guidelines
Nomination
Deadline: January 26, 2009
The Wisconsin
Lake Stewardship Award is designed to recognize an individual
or group whose outstanding contributions of time and effort
have made a positive difference in the well-being of a
Wisconsin lake (or lakes) and the human communities and
natural life living around and in the lake (or lakes).
2009 Wisconsin Lake Stewardship Award
nominees and winners will be celebrated on Thursday, March
19
at the Wisconsin Lakes Convention
in Green Bay. Questions? Contact Tanya
Graham
at the Wisconsin Association of Lakes by email (tmhgraham@tds.net),
phone (608.661.4313), or fax (608.661.4314).
2008
WI Lake
Stewardship Award Winners
2007
WI Lake Stewardship Award
Winners
2006 WI Lake Stewardship Award Winners
2005 WI Lake Stewardship
Award Winners
Award Categories
There are six
categories in which the Wisconsin Lakes Partnership annually
acknowledges Wisconsin Lake Stewards:
- Citizen This
category celebrates the many dedicated volunteers
whose actions are protecting our lakes and encouraging
others to do the same. They are, for example, working
with local governments to ensure that land use decisions
consider lake and watershed health, providing ongoing
community service, and extending a helping hand
to advance lake protection goals.
- Organized Group
This category is to recognize the many types of
partnerships for resource protection: lake associations,
lake districts, countywide associations, conservancies,
friends groups, and other collaborative efforts.
A commitment to involving people in lake management
decisions and being a catalyst for lake protection
initiatives are a few traits of previous Stewardship
Award winners in this category.
- Public service
This category is to honor public officials and employees
from state and local agencies who are really making
a difference in the work they do. Building meaningful
relationships, overcoming big challenges, and teaching
people how to make well-informed lake management
decisions are a few traits that distinguish nominees
in this category.
- Youth
This category recognizes young lake leaders or youth
groups showing local or regional leadership getting
their peers excited about lakes, monitoring and
studying lakes, and doing lake related projects.
-
Educator This category recognizes environmental
educators who have made learning about lakes a priority
through innovative projects and interactive learning
experiences. Nominees here may be classroom teachers
or informal educators for either youth or adults.
-
Business
This category recognizes
firms that have shown outstanding commitment to
the ecological health of our lakes, and in assisting
lake communities with the development and implementation
of sound lake management plans.
Not only are
we honored to recognize one outstanding person or group in
each of these six categories each year, but the Wisconsin
Lakes Partnership is proud of the accomplishments and
contributions of all Wisconsin Lake Stewardship Awards
nominees, past and present. In fact, there are likely
numerous unsung heroes who do excellent work on behalf of
lakes and never receive a nomination for a Lake Stewardship
Award. We are proud to celebrate all Wisconsin lake
stewards
and all that they do.
The intent of
this awards program is to confer special recognition on those
who have been acknowledged by their peers as outstanding
examples of the lake stewardship ethic shared by countless
Wisconsinites, past, present, and future. Winners of this
prestigious award will join a distinguished group of lake
stewards that have been formally recognized for the mark they
made on Wisconsin’s lakes, lake life, and/or lake people.
Note:
Choose the one category that
fits most closely – the Wisconsin Lake Stewardship
Awards Committee may elect to move a nominee from
one category to another, but will not do so without
first contacting the nominator to inform her/him of
the decision
Check list
for a complete Wisconsin Lake Stewardship Award nomination:
Complete the online form (see link below), and then you
only have to email or mail the Wisconsin Association of Lakes
a few pieces of supporting material and you’ll have a complete
nomination for the deserving lake steward you’d like to
recognize. The checklist below lists the requirements for a
complete nomination. Please be sure that you have done
everything on the checklist prior to the January 26 deadline
so that your nomination will be considered. Thank you!
□ A completed online Nomination Form.
□ A letter of support from the
nominator explaining why you feel the nominee is deserving of
the Wisconsin Lake Stewardship Award. Please keep all letters
of support to no more than two (2) pages.
□ No more than six (6) and not
less than two (2) letters of support from others. A nominator
must submit at least two additional letters of support from
individuals or groups with knowledge of the efforts of the
nominee and, better yet, experience working with the person or
group who has been nominated. The Wisconsin Lake Stewardship
Awards Committee will not accept any more than 6 letters of
support in addition to the one submitted by the nominator.
More letters of support will not necessarily translate into a
higher ranking of the candidate – the Committee seeks quality
here over quantity. Please keep all letters of support to no
more than two (2) pages.
□ No more than 3 bits of
supporting information further demonstrating the nominee’s
worthiness of Wisconsin Lake Stewardship Award recognition.
Examples of the kinds of materials that may be submitted here
include: news articles highlighting the nominee’s efforts and
contributions, copies of materials developed by the nominee,
testimonials on or reactions to the nominee’s efforts, and
other awards or recognition the nominee has received for their
lake-related efforts, etc. To the extent possible, please
work to make these materials relevant to your petition to
encourage the nominee’s selection as a Wisconsin Lake
Stewardship Award winner and please provide materials
electronically where possible as opposed to in hard copy.
*NOTE: The
person making the nomination may seek help from the nominee in
providing information for this award.
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