La médaille John-Burroughs, nommée d'après l'auteur naturaliste John Burroughs (1837-1921), est décernée chaque année en avril par l' à l'auteur d'un livre que l'association juge remarquable dans le domaine de l'histoire naturelle.
Liste des lauréats 1926 - William Beebe, Pheasants of the World 1927 - Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of Game Animals 1928 - John Russell McCarthy, Nature Poems 1929 - Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America (published 1906) 1930 - Archibald Rutledge, Peace in the Heart 1931 - pas de lauréat 1932 - Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, A Canyon Voyage: A Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition 1933 - Oliver P. Medsker, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (set) 1934 - William Weaver Christman, Wild Pasture Pine 1935 - pas de lauréat 1936 - Charles Crawford Gorst, Recordings of Bird Calls 1937 - pas de lauréat 1938 - Robert Cushman Murphy, Oceanic Birds of South America 1939 - Gilbert Thomas Pearson, Adventures in Bird Protection 1940 - Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds (une série de 18 titres, United States Government Printing Office) 1941 - Louis J. Halle, Jr., Birds Against Men 1942 - Edward Allworthy Armstrong, Birds of the Grey Wind 1943 - Edwin Way Teale, Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden 1944 - pas de lauréat 1945 - Rutherford Platt, This Green World 1946 - Florence Page Jaques et Francis Lee Jaques (illustrateur), Snowshoe Country 1947 - pas de lauréat 1948 - Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher, Driftwood Valley 1949 - Helen Gere Cruickshank, Flight Into Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida 1950 - Roger Tory Peterson, Birds Over America 1951 - pas de lauréat 1952 - Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us 1953 - Gilbert Klingel, The Bay 1954 - Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year 1955 - Wallace Byron Grange et Olaus J. Murie (illustrateur), Those of the Forest 1956 - Guy Murchie, Song of the Sky 1957 - Archie Fairly Carr, The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores 1958 - Robert Porter Allen, On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds 1959 - pas de lauréat 1960 - John Kieran, A Natural History of New York City 1961 - Loren Eiseley, The Firmament of Time 1962 - George Miksch Sutton, Iceland Summer: Adventures of a Bird Painter 1963 - Adolph Murie, A Naturalist in Alaska 1964 - , The Great Beach: A Naturalist Explores the Frontier Between Land and Sea on the Outer Reaches of Cape Cod 1965 - , Roadless Area 1966 - Louis Darling, The Gull's Way 1967 - Charlton Ogburn, Jr., The Winter Beach 1968 - Hal Borland, Hill Country Harvest 1969 - Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, The Lovely and the Wild 1970 - Victor B. Scheffer, The Year of the Whale 1971 - John K. Terres, From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog 1972 - Robert S. Arbib, The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland 1973 - Elizabeth Barlow, The Forests and Wetlands of New York City 1974 - Sigurd F. Olson, Wilderness Days 1975 - pas de lauréat 1976 - Ann Haymond Zwinger, Run, River, Run 1977 - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac 1978 - Ruth Kirk, The American Southwest Desert 1979 - Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men 1980 - pas de lauréat 1981 - Mary Durant et Michael Harwood, On the Road with John James Audubon 1982 - Peter Matthiessen, Sand Rivers 1983 - Alexander F. Skutch, A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm 1984 - David Rains Wallace, The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution 1985 - Mark Owens et Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari 1986 - Gary Paul Nabhan, Gathering the Desert 1987 - Robert Michael Pyle, Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land 1988 - Tom Horton et Charles R. Hazard (illustrateur), Bay Country 1989 - Lawrence Kilham, On Watching Birds 1990 - John McPhee, The Control of Nature 1991 - Richard Nelson, The Island Within 1992 - Kenneth S. Norris, Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin 1993 - Vincent Dethier, Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos 1994 - David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica 1995 - Craig Packer, Into Africa 1996 - Bill Green, Water, Ice and Stone:Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes 1997 - David Quammen, The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 1998 - John Alcock, In a Desert Garden:Love and Death Among the Insects 1999 - Jan DeBlieu, Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land 2000 - Bernd Heinrich, Mind Of the Raven 2001 - David M. Carroll, Swampwalker's Journal 2002 - Ken Lamberton, Wilderness and Razor Wire 2003 - , Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival 2004 - Ted Levin, Liquid Land: A Journey Through The Florida Everglades 2005 - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses 2006 - Donald Kroodsma, The Singing Life of Birds 2007 - Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild 2008 - Julia Whitty, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific, 2009 - Franklin Burroughs, Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay, 2010 - Michael Welland, Sand: The Never-Ending Story, 2011 - Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, 2012 - Edward (Ted) Hoagland, Sex and the River Styx, 2013 - Thor Hanson, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, 2014 - Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines, 2015 - Sherry Simpson, Dominion of Bears, 2016 - Sharman Apt Russell, Diary of a Citizen Scientist, . 2017 - Brian Doyle, Martin Marten, . 2018 - David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees, . ; une médaille spéciale John Burroughs a été décernée pour l'ensemble de ses réalisations dans la poésie de la nature à Pattiann Rogers.
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