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    Understanding its importance in funding state agency fisheries management

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Meet Our Donors

Last Updated: July 18, 2025
This page is manually updated, if you have a request for a correction contact Jenna Hanks – jhanks at fisheries.org.

Gifts from our donors flow into all aspects of the American Fisheries Society. These donors help to support programs that advance science, steward resources and nurture the next generation. We’re grateful for the support we receive from members, donors, and partners in the public and private sectors. AFS gratefully acknowledges the generosity of those who support our work.

Leadership Gifts

1870 Society, an initiative, to honor the history and accomplishments of the American Fisheries Society and recognize those generous individual donors who make it possible by investing in the Society’s important programs and operations.

Participation in the 1870 Society is open to all individuals, regardless of membership in AFS. Membership in the 1870 Society is renewable annually (calendar year). Membership in the 1870 Society begins with your first annual gift above $150, and continues with ongoing annual support. Join the 1870 Society by making a donation.

President’s Circle

Doug Austen
Judy and David Berkeley
John Boreman
Thomas Brennan Trust
Charles Coutant
Eric Fetherman
Wayne Hubert
Janice Hughes
John Jolley
Christopher Kohler
Barbara Knuth
Robert Lea
Bruce Leaman
Cassidy Miles
Christine Moffitt
Elizabeth Osier Moats
Dudley W. Reiser
Lucy Sogard
Susan Sogard
Robert Summerfelt
Jesse Trushenski
AFS Western Division
Robert White

Founding Members of the 1870 Society

Ira AdelmanJulie DeFilippi SimpsonWayne HubertCassidy MilesCharles Scalet
Douglas AustenRonald EssigJanice HughesStanley MoberlyLucy Sogard
Judy and David BerkeleyEric FethermanJohn JolleyChristine MoffittCamm Swift
John BoremanEric HallermanBarbara KnuthElizabeth Osier MoatsJesse Trushenski
Charles CoutantBret HarveySteve McMullinKim PrimmerRobert White

Donors
Bold names indicate members of the 1870 Society, donors who have contributed $150 or greater within a single year. 

Jen-Luc Abeln
F. Adams
Ira Adelman
Michael Akester
Brian Alford
Jaclyn Allen
Douglas Anderson
Chris Anderson
Abigail Archer
Douglas Austen
Adrienne Averett
Ronald Baird
Mary Webb Banning
Steven Bardin
Randall Baxter
Kenneth Beal
David Bechler
William Bechtol
Chris Beers
Kirk Beiningen
Bob and Linda Beke
Laura Belica
Lee Benaka
David Bennett
Judy and David Berkeley
Phillip Bettoli
Thomas Bigford
James Blackburn
Scott Bonar
Craig Bonds
Kimberly Bonvechio
John Boreman
Mark Bowen
Paula Bowerman
Charles Branch
Daniel Brauch
James Breck
Thomas Brennan Trust
William Buc
Jeffrey Buckel
Christine Burrough
Joseph Buttner
David Buzan
Gregor Cailliet
Colleen Caldwell
Todd Carlin
Robert Carline
Darcy Cashatt
Rowshyra Castaneda
Gilbert Chambers
Thomas Chance
Gary Chapman
Michigan Chapter of AFS
Debbie Chmara
Peter Edwin LaCivita
Julie Claussen
Lesley Cline
James Clugston
Maggie Coffey
Alison Collins
Laurence Connor
Joseph Conroy
Charles Coutant

James Cowan
William Cowan
Julia Crocker
Ciara Cusack
Susan Flanders Cushman
Katherine Dale
Heather Dawson
Diana Day
Sid DeBoer
Kim De Mutsert
Julie DeFilippi Simpson
Dawn Dittman
Tara Dolan
Terry Donaldson
Marlis Douglas

Janet Duffy-Anderson
Katrina Dunn
Lauren Eaton
Dona Eidam
Kathleen El Said
Diane Elliott
Lee Emery
Ronald Essig
Mary Fabrizio
Molly Ferrell
Eric Fetherman
Kelsie Field
William Fisher
Richard Ford
Kevin Fraley
Christopher Free
Jim Gaither
Merle Galbraith
Miguel Garcia
Lee Gardner
Patricia Gerrior
Bronwyn Gillanders
Cameron Goble
Frederick Goetz
Laurel Goodin
Sara Gottlieb
Charles Gowan
Stephen Grabowski
Robert Graham
D. Brady Green
David Green
Dane Greenberg
Richard Gregory
Carolyn Griswold
Kathryn Guindon
Roland Hagan
Eric Hallerman
Martin Hamel
Fred Harris
Larry G. Harris
Deborah Harstad
Robert Hartmann
Bret Harvey
Elsa Haubold
Michael Hayes
Trina Hedrick
Kadie Heinle
David Heller
Jennifer Hemmert
William Hemstreet
David Higginbotham
Nathaniel Hitt
Katrina Hoffman
Kate Holcomb
Sean Hommestaad
Dona Horan
Howard Horton
Edward Houde
Wayne Hubert
Janice Hughes
Leeah Hughes
Edmund Hughes
Dana Infante
Tomas Ivasauskas
Paul Jacobson
Bruce Jaggers
Ambrose Jearld
Cecil Jennings
John Jolley
Linda Jones
Jeremy Jordan
Casey Grieshaber Joubert
Lynn Kaeding
Larry Kallemeyn
Robert Kasperski
David Kazyak
Brett Kelly
Denise Kelsey
James Kempinger
Jerome Kerby
Robert Rudolf Klamt
Christopher Kohler
Bruce Koike

Kelly Kotche
Eric Knudsen
Barbara Knuth
Jessica Koehle
Christine Kondzela
Paul Kubicek
Peter Edwin LaCivita

Ralph and Sandy Larson
Michael Laurs
Robert Lea
Bruce Leaman
Deborah Leffler
David Lentz
Wayne Lifton
Bob Limbird
Karin Limburg
Amy Long
Harold Lorz
Abigail Lynch
Shannon Mace
Ian MacLeod
Megan MacMenamin
Daniel MacPhee
John Magnuson
Asfie Maidie
Jonathon Mann
Charles Manooch
Michael Marcus
Cheryl Marosi
Mark Marosi
Edie Marsh-Matthews
Sue Mauger
Norman McBride
Melissa McCune
Kevin McDonough
Robert McGeachin
Matthew Mcgoogan
Steve McMullin
Julie McWilliams
Steve Midway
Cassidy Miles
Loren Miller
Bruce Miller
Jeffrey Miner
Stanley Moberly
Christine Moffitt
Stuart Moock
Raymond Morgan

Dan Mosier, II
Michael Mounce
Peter Moyle
Robert Muller
Brian Murphy
Robert Mussgnug
David Nieland
Larry Nielsen
David Noakes
Brenda Norcross
Jerrold Norton
Steven Novotny
Arthur Oakley
Robert O’Gorman
Heidi O’Riordan

Steve Olson
Oregon Chapter of the AFS
Elizabeth Osier Moats
Diana Papoulias
Donna Parrish
Phillip Parsley
Richard Pastor
Mary Peacock
R. Douglas Perkinson
Eileen Perry
Edward Peters
Stephen Phillips
Ronald Pierce
John Pitlo
Michael Pol
Wesley Porak
Geoffrey Power
Ronald Preston
Kim Primmer
Lynn Quattro
Charles Rance
Gloria Ray
Allison Reak
Robert Reider
Dudley Reiser
James Reynolds
William Rice
Brian Riddell
Richard Ridenhour
Stephen Rideout
Dennis Riecke
LeAnne Rojas
Margaret Ropp
Konstantine Rountos
Peter Rubec
Kelly Russell
Allison Russell
Anne Rutherford
Dugan Sabins
Gary Sakagawa
Robert Samuels
Traci Sanderson
Charles Scalet
Daniel Schill
Eric Schott
Donald Schreiner
Luke Schultz
Eric Schultz
Gary Scoppettone
Todd Selby
James Shannon
Steven Shapiro
Sean Simmons
Dina Slechta
Maureen Small
Kevin Smith
Derrick Smith
Joel Snodgrass
Claire Snyder
Khin Maung Soe
Lucy Sogard

Susan Sogard
Jean Southerlan
Edward Spurr
Jon Staiger
Ralph Stearley
Roy Stein
Quentin Stober
Craig Stockwell
Natalia Sudakova
Robert Summerfelt
Keith Sweeney
Camm Swift
Timothy Targett
Ronald Taylor
Lora Tennant
David Thomas
Patricia Thompson
Rosemary Thompson
William Tietjen
Clement Tillion
William Tonn
James Triplett
Jesse Trushenski
Garrett Tunison
Lillian Tuttle Raz
Sonja Tyus
Debra Ule-Hoheisel
Robert Vadas
Julie Vecchio
Cheryl Addington Voglesong
Rhiannon Volking
Lilah Von Gruenigen
James Wahl
Gordon Waring
Harold Weeks
Jessica Weir
Laurie Weitkamp
Western Division
John Whalen
Gary Whelan
Robert White
Marcin Whitman
Thomas Williams
John Williamson
Nate Winkler
AFS Wisconsin Chapter
Thomas Wissing
Max Wolter
Daniel Woltmann
James Woodey
John Woodling
Phoebe Woodworth-Jefcoats
Asa Wright
David Wyanski

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