AAF Conservation Awards
In 2006 the Arizona Antelope Foundation voted to establish an annual conservation award to recognize those who’s work on pronghorn antelope resulted in significant increases in our understanding of pronghorn and an increase in numbers of this species into new and/or historical habitat.
For the first of these awards, the AAF has elected two exemplary individuals— Richard Ockenfels and Jim DeVos
- both within the Research Branch of the Arizona Game & Fish Department. Both of these individuals have worked diligently for many, many years on this species, and their efforts on the job and on their own time have benefited pronghorn populations from the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest south to the Mexican border and beyond.
The AAF has chosen to honor these two individuals not only for their professional efforts, which have been of the highest caliber, but for their
personal commitment to the species. Richard and Jim have not only given pronghorn the highest priority in their research, initiating and completing numerous studies on pronghorn, they have dedicated a
great deal of their private time to promoting the species within conservation organizations and through the aid of volunteers. The AAF is therefore pleased to honor each of these two individuals with the
first ever Arizona Antelope Foundation Annual Conservation Award.
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