To honor select recipients of the William T. Hornaday Silver Medal award, the Camp Fire Conservation Fund offers an annual William T. Hornaday Silver Medal Scholarship. One scholarship recipient is chosen by Camp Fire from the Silver Medal winners each year. Consideration for this scholarship is automatic upon being awarded the Hornaday Silver Medal.
On May 18th, 2016, the Fund presented the very first William T. Hornaday Scholarship Award to Eagle Scout Porter Bradford of Blanding, Utah. Porter was selected among six Hornaday Silver Medal Award winners for his outstanding and exemplary work in wildlife and habitat conservation.
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans”
“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time”
“Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best”
“Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you”
“We and the beasts are kin”
“Leave this world a little better than you found it”
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land”
“...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand”
“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country”
“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children”