Previous Book Award Winners

Recipients of the Tony Milligan Annual Book Award:

2018 Winner “A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH TO END LAND USE PLANNING AT HIGHLAND VALLEY COPPER” Natalie Melaschenko, Jaimie Dickson, Kevan Berg, Justin Straker 1Integral Ecology Group, Duncan, B.C., Canada 2Teck Highland Valley Copper, Logan Lake, B.C., Canada Please download paper from our Publishing page (2018 TRCR papers)
2009 Winner (article) Testing Landscape Modeling Approaches for Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining Land Use on Grizzly Bears (Ursus Arctos Horribilis) in the Foothills Region of West Central AlbertaWritten by: Marc Symbaluk
2008 Winner (article) Implementing Programs to Improve Gold Recovery and Reduce Environmental Impacts by Artisanal Gold Mining in BrazilWritten by: Rodolfo Neiva Sousa and Marcello M. Veiga
2007 Winner Mercury Concentrations in Fish Eating Birds from the Pinchi lake Area in relation to Productivity and Reproductive Success Written by: Shari Weech and Tony Scheuhamm
2006 Winner Selenium Monitoring and Management – New Mines Written by: Peter Chapman
2005 Winner Conceptual Reclamation Planning and the Development of Results Based Standards at the Elkview Operations Written by: J. Przeczek and D Ryder
2004 Winner Re-establishing Livestock on Mined Landscapes in the Southern Interior of B.C. Written by: K. Gizikoff
2003 Winner Regeneration of Moderate-Yield Conifer Forests at Fording Coal’s (now Elk Valley Coal Corporation) Fording River Operations Written by: J. Straker, B. O’Brien, C.E. Jones and R. Berdusco
2002 Winner Bluebell Mine – Remediation of a Historic Mine Site Written by: B. Donald, W. Kuit and N. Sandstrom
2001 Winner Cariboo Reclamation Project and Sediment Control During the Construction Phase of a Major Mine Written by: B. McBride
2000 Winner Development and Utilization of an End Land Use Plan for Highland Valley Copper Written by: M. Freberg and C. Gizikoff
1999 Winner The Evolution of the Island Copper Mine Pit Lake Written by: M. Wilton and G. Lawrence
1998 Winner Restoration of Landslides and Unstable Slopes: Considerations for Bioengineering in Interior Locations Written by: D. F. Polster

2018 Winner

“A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH TO END LAND USE PLANNING AT HIGHLAND VALLEY COPPER” Natalie Melaschenko, Jaimie Dickson, Kevan Berg, Justin Straker 1Integral Ecology Group, Duncan, B.C., Canada 2Teck Highland Valley Copper, Logan Lake, B.C., Canada

Please download paper from our Publishing page (2018 TRCR papers)

2017 Winner

“Impacts of One Time Biosolids and Fertilizer Application on Long-Term Metal and Nutrient Concentrations on Two Tailings Ponds in the BC Southern Interior”, M.E. Phillips, W.G. Gardner, T.G. Pypker, Thompson Rivers University Kamloops

Best paper

2016 Winner

No Symposium due to BC Fires

2015 Winner

“Developing an Effective Native Tree and Shrub Planting Program at Teck Coal Ltd.’s Elkview operations.” Authors: John Przeczek with Pryzm Environmental and Lanny Amos of Teck Coal Ltd. Winning Paper: Przeczek_J_et al_BC_Mine_2014

2014 Winner

“Use of Ecological Risk Assessment to Guide Remediation at Teck’s Pinchi Lake Mercury Mine” Winning paper

Authors: Patrick Allard, Randy Baker, Cheryl Mackintosh, Azimuth Consulting Group Partnership

2013 Winner (article)

Establishment of a Trial to Test Direct Seeding of Lodgepole Pine at Gibraltar Mine”

Authors: Becky Bravi, Terraforma and Bill Chapman, FLNRO and presented in 2012

2012 Winner (article)

Kemess South Mine Reclamation and Closure

Written by: Georgia Lysay, Jennifer McConnachie, Carolyn Johns and Jordan Evans and presented in 2010

2011 (Not awarded)

2010 Winner (article)
Cultural Keystone Species in Oil Sands Mine Reclamation, Fort McKay, Alberta, CanadaWritten by: Justin Straker and Ann Garibaldi

2009 Winner (article)
Testing Landscape Modeling Approaches for Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining Land Use on Grizzly Bears (Ursus Arctos Horribilis) in the Foothills Region of West Central AlbertaWritten by: Marc Symbaluk