In 2022, the Nationwide Flora and fauna Shelter Affiliation awarded David the Shelter Suggest of the 12 months Award on account of his remarkable paintings as an suggest for our country’s flora and fauna refuges, in particular his paintings with the Nationwide Flora and fauna Shelter Gadget in Alaska. David’s function as co-founder of the Buddies of Alaska NWRs group in 2005 has ended in years of advocacy, conservation, and preservation paintings for nationwide flora and fauna refuges in Alaska. Throughout his tenure as President, numerous relationships have been shaped between each and every of the 16 Alaskan nationwide flora and fauna refuges and the Anchorage Regional Fish and Flora and fauna workforce, along side the growth of the Buddies of Alaska NWRs to 315 participants. The Buddies of Alaska NWRs’ volunteer, advocacy, and teaching programs larger exponentially below his management. Via David’s oral and written feedback, opinion items, Congressional testimony, litigation actions, declarations, volunteer organizing, media communications, and different actions, David has considerably contributed to the a large number of wins skilled over time for plenty of of Alaska’s refuges. Those come with again and again staving off Arctic Shelter oil and gasoline drilling for a few years and reaching a 12-million-acre wasteland advice for the Arctic Nationwide Flora and fauna Shelter. David has additionally labored for 15 years protecting Izembek Nationwide Flora and fauna Shelter from a highway that will damage its ecological integrity. The Buddies of Alaska NWRs would now not be what it’s nowadays with out his tireless efforts to improve and offer protection to Alaska’s nationwide flora and fauna refuges.