Bullock, the current Senior Vice President of Forest Sustainability for the Resource Management Service, has invested more than 35 years into the advancement of sustainable forest practices and forest habitat restoration.

Presenting the award, Steve Williams, WMI President, observed: ?George Bird Grinnell?the acknowledged ?Father of American Conservation??was remarkably diverse in lending his time, foresight and talents to the causes of wildlife protection and management, habitat restoration, wildlands preservation and clean water. He was the consummate sportsman and conservation mentor to Theodore Roosevelt. Through his writings, his Forest and Stream magazine, through his political activism and, by dint of his low-key, persuasive personality, Grinnell helped ensure that conservation emerged as part of the national agenda.?

Bullock earned his Bachelor?s Degree in Forestry from Mississippi State University in 1980 and his Masters Degree in Wildlife Ecology from MSU in 1982. His personal and professional life have remained firmly rooted in the south, and his colleagues assert that he epitomizes the ?type-specimen of the southern wildlife biologist,?