Donna McDonald, Alder, Mont.

In 2008, McDonald, who owns and operates Upper Canyon Outfitters with her husbund, Jake, helped organize the Montana Outfitters and Guides Association's Big Hearts Under the Big Sky program. This charitable partnership matches terminally ill children, women with breast cancer, and combat-wounded veterans with Montana outfitters, who guide them free of charge. She has also worked to improve hunting access in the state with a volunteer group of citizens on the Governor's Private Land/Public Wildlife Council. "Preserving our outdoor heritage is one of my most passionate goals," she says.

Michael Morrison, Swanzey, N.H.

Retired high school biology teacher Michael Morrison has continued to run the Monadnock High School Fish and Game Club in his spare time since 2006. His students learn trap-shooting and fly tying, stock pheasants and salmon fry, plant flood-damaged stream banks, and build duck boxes. Morrison also volunteers to teach gun safety at another local school. "There is a replacement generation out there that we need to get involved in these activities," he says.

Kevin McGrath and Alex Watson, Atlanta, Ga.

McGrath and Watson have been working to protect, restore, and enhance native brook trout populations in the North Georgia mountains since 2005. "There's a heritage and a legecy behind these fihs," says McGrath, who is chairman of Georgia Trout Unlimited's Back-the-Brookie program. He and Watson, the program's conservation coordinator, have led their group in habitat restoration to increase the depth and improve the health of four headwater streams.