Congratulations to Mike Town, winner of our first Cox Conserves Heroes Award. The Washington Wilderness Coalition will receive $5,000 as Mike’s environmental non-profit organization of choice.

Mike helped turn the Wild Sky Wilderness Act into law. He founded a local grassroots group, spent hundreds of hours documenting every component of Wild Sky - 106,000 acres near Skykomish - and consulted members of Congress and the press on boundary issues. As a result, a new wilderness was created this past April within an hour’s drive of nearly one million people.

Watch Mike’s Video

Along with Mike, each finalist is an environmental hero who works to create, improve and preserve the shared outdoor spaces in our communities.

The Cox Conserves Hero program will take place again in 2009 in the Western Washington area. You will receive an email announcing the program dates.

View videos for our other Western Washington finalists.