Photo Gallery
Alan Ansel receiving first APLIC Morley Nelson Award, 2006. Pictured from left to right: Brad Loveless (Westar Energy), Bill Bolin (Dominion Power), Alan Ansel and wife Connie, Rick Loughery (EEI), Jim Burruss (PacifiCorp), Jim Lindsay (Florida Power and Light), Dan Pearson (Southern California Edison).
APLIC Morley Nelson Award Recipients, 2009, at World Center for Birds of Prey, Boise, Idaho. Pictured from left to right: Tyler Nelson, Alan Ansel (Idaho Power Company, retired) and Gary Breece (Georgia Power, retired) accepting for Dick Thorsell (Edison Electric Institute), Dan Pearson (Southern California Edison), Bob Turner (National Audubon Society).
Establishment of the Morley Nelson Award, Park City, Utah, 2003. Pictured (left to right): Stephen Stuebner (author of "Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey"), Jim Lindsay (Florida Power and Light), and Morley Nelson.
Signing of APP Guidelines, 2005. Pictured left to right: top - Jim Burruss (PacifiCorp), John Holt (National Rural Electric Cooperative Association), Quin Shea (Edison Electric Institute), bottom - Jim Lindsay (Florida Power and Light), Paul Schmidt (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
APLIC members and USFWS staff at signing of APP Guidelines, Washington DC, 2005.
Photo courtesy of Echo Films, Boise, ID
A Tribute to Dick Thorsell
( April 11, 1927 – April 15, 2012 )
Dick Thorsell had a lifetime devotion to birds and was one of the founders of APLIC. He brought electric utilities, government agencies, and environmental groups together to work in cooperation to mitigate bird deaths from power line collisions and electrocutions. Contributions in memory of Dick can be made to the Peregrine Fund of Boise, Idaho: https://my.peregrinefund.org/donate . A book on Dick’s life, “400 Million Years of a Rolling Stone: The Quest of a Conservationist in the 20th Century” is available from Bobby Ward, (biblio@nc.rr.com, www.bobbyjward.com)