Essay Contest Winners

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Year	Author	Essay Title	Award (in $)
2021	Jason Mazurowski	Splitting Clouds at the Edge of the World	1500
2021	Claire Dumont	How COVID-19 Exposed the Myth of Wilderness and Revealed its Potential: A Reflection on 2020 through a Hike of the Long Trail	500
2021	Keely O'Connell	Bird's Eye View
2020	Lorraine Monteagut	The Wild Self, What is wild to one is home to another	1500
2019	Jennifer O'Connell	Valley of the Bulls	1500
2019	Alex Pickens	The Do's and Don't's of Trail Running in the Appalachian Mountains	1500
2019	John Anderson	Humor in the Wild	500
2018	Emily Heidenreich	On Ceding Control	1500
2018	Tyler Socash	The Torch of Preservation	500
2017	No Award Given
2016	No Award Given
2015	Dove Henry	One Tough Gal	1500
2015	Erica Berry	Lady and the Camp	500
2014	Jenny Kelly Wagner	The Cage Canyon	1500
2013	Michael Wejchert	Epigoni, Revisited	1500
2012	Katherine Dykstra	A Place for Everything	1500
2012	Angela Zukowski	Wilderness	500
2011	Blair Braverman	On Being Lost	1000
2011	Bethany Taylor	The Warp and Weft	1000
2010	Dianne Fallon	Hunting the Woolly Adelgid	1500
2009	Jeremy Loeb	A Ritual Descent	1500
2008	Kimberley S.K. Beal	Climate Change at the Top	1500