QDMA Press Release
QDMA Founder Joe Hamilton honors
Dr. Harry Jacobson with
Lifetime Achievement Award
Bogart, Ga. – Retired educator and Quality Deer Management pioneer Dr. Harry Jacobson received the Joe Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award during the QDMA National Convention and Whitetail Expo, in Valley Forge, Pa. Named for QDMA founder Joe Hamilton, the award honors individuals who have made significant, lifetime contributions to deer, deer hunting and deer management.
“For nearly 40 years, we have disagreed – usually over nit-picky notions and, more often than not, simply for the sake of arguing,” Hamilton said with a grin as he talked about Jacobson in presenting the award. “But through it all, our friendship never faltered. Our mutual admiration of deer, deer research, deer management and deer hunting takes precedence over any differences in opinion we may have had over the years.”
Hamilton noted that Jacobson was a pioneer, along with current QDMA Board Member Dr. Dave Guynn, in applying QDM practices outside of Texas. In fact, by the time Hamilton founded QDMA in 1988, more than two million acres of Mississippi land had been enrolled in a land management assistance program Jacobson and Guynn developed to encourage QDM practice.
As professor of Wildlife Management at Mississippi State University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Jacobson agreed to serve on QDMA’s 13-member Advisory Board. Throughout his professional career, Jacobson has had published more than 200 articles, book chapters and scientific papers.
He has been honored with the Southeastern Deer Management Career Achievement Award ñ one of only seven ever to receive the award – and with Lifetime Honorary Membership in The Wildlife Society.
Founded in 1988, QDMA is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization with 40,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries. Membership in QDMA is open to anyone interested in better deer and better deer hunting, and committed to ethical hunting, sound deer management and the preservation of the deer-hunting heritage. To learn more about QDMA and why it is the future of deer hunting, call (800) 209-DEER [(800) 209-3337] or visit www.QDMA.com.
–QDMA … better deer, better deer hunting– |
