Award Robert Marshall Award

American Academy of Arts and Letters (2019)

Robert Kirsch Award (2018)

Sierra Club John Muir Award (2014)

Spirit of the Arctic Award (2008)

John Wesley Powell Award (2008)

Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2006)

Wallace Stegner Award (2005)

Association for Mormon Letters Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)

Utah Governor's Award in the Humanities (1995)

Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction ∙ 1993)

National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Award for Special Achievement (1993)