LEILA FUJIMORI / LFUJIMORI@STARBULLETIN.COM Jack Jeffrey led a group of Sierra Club volunteers through the koa forest at the Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge on the Big Island on Labor Day.

Big Isle photographer
wins Sierra Club's
Ansel Adams Award

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Star-Bulletin

Big Island resident and noted wildlife photographer Jack Jeffrey has been awarded the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award, which honors photographers who uses still photography for conservation.

Jeffrey, who is employed as a biologist at Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, received the award recently at the environmental group's 2002 awards banquet in San Francisco.

He is co-author of two books on Hawaii birds, and his color photographs have appeared in National Geographic, National Wildlife, Audubon, Smithsonian, Natural History, Life, Pacific Discovery, Hana Hou and Hawaii magazines, as well as in textbooks, calendars and postcards. His photos of the Micronesian cardinal honeyeater and Hawaii's crested honeycreeper have served as the basis for U.S. postage stamps in the Endangered Species Series.

Some of his photos can be seen online at www.travelwithachallenge.com/Hawaiian_Bird_Pictures.htm.