Edmund Jaeger - Honors

Honors

  • The "Edmund C. Jaeger Desert Institute" on the Moreno Valley College (MVC) of the Riverside Community College District is named in his honor. MCV also offers an "Edmund C. Jaeger Endowed Scholarship".
  • In 1986 The Nature Conservancy completed development of the "Edmund C. Jaeger Nature Sanctuary" in the Chuckwalla Mountains near Desert Center, California. It was in the Chuckwalla Mountains that Jaeger discovered the Poorwill, and after his death in 1983, his cremated remains were scattered in the same canyon.
  • The University of La Verne of La Verne, California, maintains a small museum dedicated to Jaeger.
  • Pacific Union College of Angwin, California, annually presents an "Edmund C. Jaeger Award" in biology and "Dr. Edmund C. Jaeger Scholarship Grant" in education to deserving students.
  • Designated as a Fellow of the California Native Plant Society in 1976.
  • Received the Auld Lang Syne Award from Occidental College in 1982.

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