2024 MT TWS Award Recipients

Distinguished Service Award: 

Mike Mitchell

Biologist of the Year Award:

Brandi Skone

Bob Watts Communications Award:

Torrey Ritter

Rising Professional Award:

Amber Feddes

Wildlife Conservation Award:

Mike McTee

Wynn Freeman Scholarship Recipients:

Carly Segal (MSU) and Mattie Budine (UM)

Western Meadowlark Award Recipients
(for other Montana colleges with wildlife programs)

Joe Lamb (UM Western)

Best Student Oral Presentation:

Anna Kurtin (grad, UM) – Improving black-billed cuckoo monitoring in Montana

Emily Pizinni (undergrad, MT Technological University) – The effect of precipitation accumulation on bull elk harvest in the Big Hole area of Montana

Best Student Poster Award:

Eli Estey (grad, University of Idaho) – Human dimensions of wolverine (Gulo gulo) perspectives and attitudes of backcountry winter recreationists

Mathew Gomez (undergrad, UM) – Comparison of beaver dam densities between drainages open and closed to trapping

TWS Grant Recipient:

Leah Rensel (UM)