Samuel Receives Joe Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award
BOGART, Ga. – During the Quality Deer Management Association’s 9th Annual National Convention, Joe Hamilton, 
QDMA’s founder and Director of Education for the South, presented Dr. David E. Samuel with the Joe Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award.
Each year the award is given to a QDMA member who has dedicated his life and career to wildlife management in general and deer management in particular, making a significant impact in deer management, deer research, deer hunting, and advancing the mission of the QDMA.
Dr. Samuel is an accomplished educator with a Doctorate in Wildlife Biology. He marked his professional trail with hundreds of publications, academic relationships with a host of graduate students, and service to natural resource organizations. Dr. Samuel has served as a mentor to countless hunters and has been a staunch advocate of the QDMA and QDM ever since he first recommended the philosophy to readers of his magazine column in 1990.
After presenting the award to Dr. Samuel, Joe Hamilton said, “Aldo Leopold, renowned Father of Wildlife Management and the Nation’s first university wildlife professor, was the consummate educator. Professor Leopold would have been proud of Dr. David E. Samuel’s lifetime accomplishments with an emphasis on education. His prowess as a hunter is unquestionable, but it is his reputation as an educator that singled him out of the masses as a deserving recipient of the QDMA’s most prestigious award.”
Hamilton’s statement speaks for the commitment to and the impact of Dr. Samuel’s lifetime dedication to wildlife management. Named after Mr. Hamilton, the award is the highest honor bestowed upon a QDMA member. Acceptance of the award puts Dr. Samuel in an esteemed group of only a handful of Joe Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients who will forever be remembered and appreciated by the Quality Deer Management Association for the advancement of the mission of the organization.
About QDMA
Founded in 1988, QDMA is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization with more than 50,000 members in all 50 states and Canada, 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) 209-3337 or visit www.QDMA.com.
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