Golden
Gate Endangered Species Big Year Awards $2,000 Grand Prize
1pm, January 10, 2009 at Crissy Field Center, San Francisco
2008 GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year Competition Closing
Celebration Offers 50 Participants Free Food, Nature Calendars, and
Magazine Subscriptions
After a year
exploring the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and helping the
park’s 33 endangered species recover, one person out of 250
competitors will be awarded the $2,000 GGNRA Endangered Species Big
Year grand prize at an awards ceremony and celebration on Saturday,
January 10, 2009 at 1pm at the Crissy Field Center in the Presidio.
The closing
ceremony will feature free food from Arizmendi Bakery, free 2009
nature almanacs from WildNature, and free subscriptions to Bay
Nature Magazine for 50 participants. Other nature prizes will also
be provided. After the ceremony, bird experts will lead a short
hike to search for the Western Snowy Plover, San Francisco’s very
own endangered shorebird.
The GGNRA contains
more endangered species than any other National Park in continental
North America: more than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and
Sequoia National Parks combined. The 2008 GGNRA Endangered Species
Big Year was a race against time to see and save each of the park’s
33 endangered species. During 2008, over 250 Endangered Species Big
Year competitors raced to see each of the 33 endangered species
found in the GGNRA, and then take 33 actions that help these species
recover during the calendar year in 2008.
With less than
two weeks remaining, three competitors have separated themselves
from the pack: San Francisco county’s Liam O’Brien, former Broadway
actor and author of the forthcoming book “the Flying Pansies,”;
Marin County’s Steve Price, branding expert who named products such
as Blackberry, Pentium, Apple PowerBook; and Alameda County’s David
Seaborg, son of the famous Berkeley physicist for whom the element
Seaborgium is named. One of these three individuals will likely win
the $2,000 grand prize.
Read more and
Listen to Blend Magazine’s interview with Brent Plater (Executive
Director of the 2008 GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year).
