Past Johnson Award Recipients
Dr. David Nelson, Matt Kline, and Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm pose with giant check following 2025 ceremony.
2025 Award Winner:
Mr. Matthew Kline, science teacher at Mount Savage Middle School, received the 2025 Richard Johnson Environmental Education Award in recognition of the instrumental role he has played in the development of the school’s agricultural program. Under his guidance, the program has grown from a few garden beds, designed and planted by students, to an all-year program that sells produce and honey to the community and includes a chicken-hatching program for elementary students.
Other past recipients of the Richard A. Johnson Environmental Education Award include:
- Marie Miller
- Annie Stark
- Francis “Champ” Zumbrun
- Craig Hartsock
- Liz McDowell
- Charles Hager
- Marcellus Shale Stream Monitoring Coalition
- Janice Keene
- Tom Mathews
- Forestry Technology Program at Allegany College
- Dana McCauley
- Caroline Blizzard
- Sarah Milbourne
- Robert Miller
- Jeffrey Ruark
- Kevin Dodge
- Patrick Delaney
- Alan Hammond
- Ken Baxter
- Melvin Brown
- Joseph L. Winters
- Bernard C. Zlomek
- Kent B. Fuller
- Charles F. Strauss, Sr.
- Nan Livingstone
- Don A. Emerson
- Kendrick Y. Hodgdon