The Fly Fishers of Virginia Taylor F. Turner, Jr.
Conservation Award
The FFV has always been a conservation oriented
organization and in 2002 we decided that as a club we would like to honor
individuals or organizations in the state that have made a valuable contribution
to the preservation of our fisheries and waterways. Richard Roadcap, then our
VP of Conservation, originated the idea of the 'Taylor F. Turner, Jr.
Conservation Award'.
This new conservation award is named after former club president and long
time member, Taylor F. Turner Jr. Taylor passed away several
years ago and the board of directors decided that a conservation award would be one
way we could honor and remember Taylor in the years to come. Taylor was an avid
outdoorsman in both field and stream. He missed very few of our dinner meetings
and was active in fishing trips and other events that the club has sponsored in
the past. He always had a smile and a kind word for everyone that was lucky
enough to have met him.
Recipients of the Taylor F. Turner, Jr. Conservation
Award
2009
Dr. David Jones
The 2010 Recipient of the Taylor Turner
Conservation Award was Dr. David Jones.
Dr. Jones is a proponent and sponsor of the 'Trout
in the Classroom' initiative.
2008
Jeff Turner
Blackwater
Nottoway Riverkeeper Program
2007
Jon Lucy
The FFV presented the Taylor Turner
Conservation Award to Virginia Sea Grant Marine Advisory Specialist Jon Lucy for
“conservation of natural resources and improvement of sport fishing
opportunities in Virginia.”
Mr. Lucy is fisheries scientist with
the 'Virginia
Institute of Marine Science' (VIMS) .
2006
Dr. Dan Downey
Dr. Dan Downey was the FFV's 2006 Taylor Turner Award
winner
Dr. Downey’s research is primarily
in the area of environmental analytical chemistry. He is also interested in the
analytical use of radioactive materials and in chemical separations. For more
than ten years, he and his students have worked on acid deposition (acid rain)
projects. The most important projects have involved mitigating acidity in
streams and lakes to protect and enhance fisheries and other aquatic life. An
example of this type work may be found in the recent project of liming the
streams in the St. Mary’s Wilderness
in Augusta County, Virginia . Projects have also been done on the impacts of
gypsy moth defoliation on stream water chemistry, the fate and analysis of
herbicides and pesticides, aquatic water chemistry habitat information for
amphibians and threatened and enlarged species and other environmentally
oriented projects. With his students who have worked on these projects, these
research studies have been described in 67 papers presented at regional and
national conferences and 50 publications in various journals. (Text from the
JUM.edu web site)
2005
Tom Gunter
VDGIF biologist, Tom Gunter awarded the 2005 Taylor
Turner award.
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Here are some facts about Tom's career and background:
 | He received his B.S. degree from Ferrum college in Environmental Studies in 1978. |
| Has served the interests of sportsman in Virginia for 26 years as an employee
of VDGIF. |
| Has served and currently serves as a district fisheries biologist that
encompasses eleven counties from Richmond to Charlottesville and the eastern
slope of the Shenandoah National Park. |
| Started his career in the VDGIF's cold and warm water hatchery program and gained
extensive experience in the culture of cold, cool, and warm water fishes. |
| He initiated the striped bass restoration effort in 1988. |
| Has Served as chairman of the Largemouth Bass Committee, published an article in
2002 explaining to fisherman the facts of largemouth bass virus and how they
could help to minimize possible impacts. |
| Has been a key individual in the development of a wildlife area around the
Hardware
river near Scottsville. |
| Since 1992 has been involved in the shad restoration program, and from 1994
to present has been the state coordinator for the shad restoration program. The
program was begun as a result of dwindling shad populations returning to
Virginia rivers to the extent that a moratorium was put on shad fishing in 1994. |
*Thanks to FFV board member Jay Armstrong for this bio information (edited).
2004
Dominion Resources
DOMINION
RESOURCES RECEIVES TAYLOR TURNER CONSERVATION AWARD
RICHMOND, Va. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004 - The Fly Fishers of Virginia today
awarded its Taylor Turner Conservation Award to Dominion for its plan to spend
more than $1.2 billion on environmental improvements at its coal-powered
generating stations in Virginia and West Virginia.
Dominion was honored with the award for a number of environmental projects un-
dertaken in 2003. Chief among those was its settlement with the Environmental
Pro-
tection Agency on Clean Air Act issues at its Mt. Storm Power Station in West
Vir-
ginia. Dominion's voluntary settlement was the largest of its kind and calls for
the
company to spend more than $1.2 billion on emissions controls at eight power sta-
tions. Those improvements will dramatically reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide
and
sulfur dioxide, which have been linked to the creation of smog and acid rain.
Larry Cortright, FFV vice president for conservation, in presenting the award
said,
"In voluntarily reaching a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency,
Do-
minion recognized its responsibility to our environment and set an environmental
stewardship standard for other large industries to follow. That settlement will
reduce
pollutants that harm our cold water streams and trout populations."
The Richmond-based energy company also was recognized for a partnership with the
College of William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science that led to
the
tagging of puppy drum wintering in the warmwater canal of one of its power
stations
and for teaming up with Trout Unlimited in West Virginia to improve angler
access to
a popular stretch of a catch and release trout stream.
Reprinted from the FFV March 2004 Newsletter
2003
CCA
The Coastal
Conservation Association - Virginia Chapter (CCA) was awarded the 2nd annual
'Taylor Turner Award'. The CCA is a leading conservation organization in our
great state. This group has been around since 1977 and their focus is to
'conserve, protect, and restore the wild fish species that frequent Virginia's
tidal waters'. On hand to accept the award were executive director of CCA
Virginia, Richard Welton and state chairman, Jim Hayden.
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2002
Larry Mohn
It was a unanimous decision by the board of directors to nominate long-time
acquaintance, Larry Mohn to be the first recipient of this conservation award.
Larry holds a B.S. degree in Zoology from Penn State University and a graduate
degree in Fisheries Science from Virginia Tech. For the past 26 years he has
worked as a biologist for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland fisheries.
In those years he has been instrumental in developing special regulation trout
fisheries and restructuring the states ‘put and take’ trout program. He is
currently a regional fisheries manager for the game commission and is
responsible for all fisheries activity in an 11 county area. He also serves as
the statewide coldwater project leader.
Larry has received several other awards during his career including:
