Click on the title above and go to the Budweiser 2010 Conservationist of the Year and choose your candidate.

Idaho TU members have the luxury - or dilemma - between two of the final four.

John French of Ketchum, ID, has focused many efforts toward improving and conserving critical fish and bird habitat on Silver Creek in south-central Idaho, arguably one of the finest spring creeks in the western United States. He’s restored and enhanced more than 2,500 feet along the Creek with innovative bio-logs and native vegetation creating better conditions for trout and many species of birds.

Says Carmen Northen, “One of our local’s John French has been nominated for this award, I have walked his property and seen the project.  If he wins, the money would go to Silver Creek for more habitat restoration.”

Jim Range of Washington, DC, before passing away in early 2009, Jim spent his life enhancing the quality of America’s hunting and fishing. His vision for the future of the sport and his ability to inspire a similar passion in others through his words and actions rallied countless supporters around his conservation vision. Co-founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, he held board positions with Trout Unlimite

Says Loren Albright. “Jim was a national Trout Unlimited Board member- Outstanding individual. Died last spring of a very fast cancer.  Would be very appropriate for this award to go to him post-humously.”