Don MacGillis Wins Aldo Leopold Award

Don MacGillis and grandson Harry

A double shot of good news arrived earlier this year when our friend Don MacGillis won The Wilderness Societs Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing and asked that the $1,000 prize in his name be directed to the Berkshire Natural Resources Council.
MacGillis, an editorial writer at The Boston Globe, will be remembered by Berkshire veterans as the editorial page editor - and later editor in cheif of The Berkshire Eagle.

At The Globe, MacGillis responsibilities include writing about the environment, health, science and Western Massachusetts. In searching for this year's recipient of its prize for an editorial writer who has produced editorials forcefully making the case for protecting America's remaining wildlands, The Wilderness Society found their man.

Don MacGillis has quickly become a notable voice in the conservation debate, a talented writer who knows how to marshal the facts in defense of America's wilderness and wildlife, said Society President William H. Meadows.
MacGillis splits his time between Brighton and his home in the Berkshires, where he satisfies his yen for hiking, snowshoeing, bushwhacking and wood-splitting.