The results are in from the public voting for the Save The Wild UP Video Challenge.
Drum Roll Please…
The Second Runner-Up is Scott Lynch for his video titled "Kennecott Eagle Mine". Prizes for the First Runner-Up include a beautiful limited edition Coaster Brook Trout Print and a gift package from Grocer's Daughter Chocolate.
The First Runner-Up with 1406 votes is Peter Schriemer for his video titled "Michigan's Water and Wildlife". Prizes for the First Runner-Up include a beautiful limited edition Coaster Brook Trout Print and a gift package from Grocer's Daughter Chocolate.
The Grand Prize Winner with 1907 votes is Josh Leo for his Video titled "Sulfide Mining Will Damage Michigan". Prizes for the Grand Prize Winner include $2500 & a holiday package in the Huron Mountains of the Upper Peninsula.
June 4, 2007 – 4:08 pm
The videos have been entered and are ready for you to view and vote on!
Click to vote in the Save the Wild UP Video Challenge.
Be sure to tell all your friends to come here and help decide who will win the $2500 Grand Prize!
The winner will be announced on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at the Water Festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Acid Mine Drainage = Sulfuric Acid
aka Battery Acid
"Michigan's biodiversity depends directly on clean lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands."
Sulfide mining creates sulfuric acid, and sulfuric acid is not safe
Water: clean, vital, alive … and threatened.
"We are the Great Lakes State, we are the state that has stewardship of 20% of the world's fresh water"
"36,000 miles of streams.
150 species of native fish.
We are the caretakers."
"The fate of the Salmon
Trout River is the fate
of Lake Superior."
Still time to make your video - learn how right here!
"If we don't save this,
who will?"
The first videos are rolling in - just one week left to get yours in and be eligible for the $2500 cash prize!
