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Excellence in Craft Winners, 2001

Big Game Hunting Contest

Sponsored by Leupold & Stevens

Magazine Category:

1st place: John Sloan, Lebanon, Tennessee, “The Learning,” Bow and Arrow Magazine, September 2000.

2nd place:  Lisa Price, Dixfield, Maine, “Caribou House,” Bow & Arrow Hunting, November 2000.

3rd place: Kathy Etling, Osage Beach, Missouri, “The Ties That Bind,” Buckmasters, July/August 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place:   John Sloan, Lebanon, Tennessee, “The Mentor,” Wilson World, November 24, 2000.

2nd place:  Terry Brady, Zieglerville, Pennsylvania, “Deer hunters mourn the death of the mighty Casey,” Reading Eagle/Times, February 20, 2000.

3rd place: Shannon Tompkins, “Deer have come to a crossroads in Texas,” Houston Chronicle, January 2, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place:  David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “Public Hunt,” Texas Parks & Wildlife, August 2000.

2nd place:   Denver Bryan, Bozeman, Montana, running whitetail, Whitetail Calendar 2000.

3rd place:   Wendy Shattil and Bob Rozinski, Denver, Colorado, “Bighorn on Tundra,” Alpenglow Magazine, 2000 edition.

 

Video Category:

1st place: Forrest Fox, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, “Montana Trophy Whitetail Season,” North American Hunter on ESPN, July 1, 2000.

2nd place:   John Adkins, Edgefield, South Carolina, Turkey Call Episode #202051003, TNN, January 15 and 18, 2000.

3rd place:  Babe Winkelman, Nisswa, Minnesota, “Stalking Foot – Mule Deer,” WGN, July 28, 2000.

 

Radio Category:

None awarded - insufficient entries

Boating Contest

Sponsored by Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation

Magazine Category:

1st place:  Ryck Lydecker, Alexandria, Virginia, “Electric Boats Charging Back,” Boat/U.S. Magazine, January 2000.

2nd place: Terry Brady, Zieglerville, Pennsylvania, “Boating Reunion: Unsinkable Family Tradition,” Pennsylvania Angler & Boater, January/February 2000.

3rd  place: Wayne Nester, Central Islip, New York, “Boating Safety: What You Think You Know and What You Really Know,” The Fisherman, January 6 and 13, 2000 (2 part series).

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place:   David Buchanan, Grand Junction, Colorado, “Haunted by Running Waters,” The Daily Sentinel, June 7, 2000.

2nd place:   Dennis Aprill, Schuyler Falls, New York, “Grand Seclusion,” Times-Union, June 18, 2000.

3rd place:  Paul Smith, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, “Wisconsin’s Water Trail,” Racine Journal Times, July 28, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place:  Bill Lindner, St. Paul, Minnesota, “Running boat at sunrise,” NAFC—How to Catch Pike and Muskie, Spring 2000.

2nd place: David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “S-Turn,” Fly Fishing in Salt Waters, July/August 2000.

3rd place: Charles Willey, Lemington, Vermont, “Beauty of Boating,” 2000 New Hampshire Fish & Wildlife Calendar.

 

Video Category:

1st place: Ron Schara, Minneapolis, Minnesota, “Boat Names,” KARE-11/NBC, August 2000.

2nd place: Douglas Miller, Salt Lake City, Utah, “Sailing the Great Salt Lake, Utah’s Inland Ocean,” KSL-TV, June 24, 2000.

3rd place:  Ron Schara, Minneapolis, Minnesota, “Fall Fishing,” KARE-11/NBC, June 2000.

 

Radio Category:

None awarded – insufficient entries.

 

Book Contest

Sponsored by Krause Publications

1st place: Peter Lane Taylor, St. Charles, Illinois, “Science at the Extreme: Scientists at the Cutting Edge of Discovery.”

2nd place:  Ken Schultz, Forestburgh, New York, “Ken Schultz’s Fishing Encyclopedia and Worldwide Angling Guide.”

3rd place: Tom Carpenter, “Images of the Hunt.”

Camping/Backpacking Contest

Sponsored by The Coleman Company Inc.

Magazine Category:

1st place: Jerry Dennis, Traverse City, Michigan, “Backcountry on a Budget,” Chevy Outdoors, Summer 2000.

2nd place:  Bill Sherwonit, Anchorage, Alaska, “The Lure of Nameless Places,” Alaska Magazine, March 2000.

3rd place:  T. Edward Nickens, Raleigh, North Carolina, “Time Travel, By Paddle,” Cooking Light, May 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place:  Shannon Tompkins, Houston, Texas, “Cane Anew,” Houston Chronicle, June 22, 2000.

2nd place: Garvey Winegar, Waynesboro, Virginia, “Hiker Pelted Down by Ice Storm Recounts Slow Dance With Death,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 4, 2000.

3rd place:  Rich Landers, Spokane, Washington, “Flameless Cooking,” Spokesman-Review, August 27, 2000.

 

Art/ Photo Category:

1st place: Denver Bryan, Bozeman, Montana, “Into the Mountains,” In the Saddle, British Travel Company catalog, Spring 2000.

2nd place:  Bill Lindner, St. Paul, Minnesota, “Winter Camping – Frying Fish at End of Day,” Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, January/February 2000.

3rd place:  Kent Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Camping with Uncle Sam,” Motorhome magazine, September 2000.

 

Video Category:

1st place: Babe Winkelman, Nisswa, Minnesota, “Goose Chase for Moose,” WGN-TV, August 11, 2000.

2nd place:  Douglas Miller, Salt Lake City, Utah, “Havasu Falls Backpack,” KSL-TV, March 18, 2000.

3rd place: Adela Batin, Producer, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Leslie Gaines, Director/Soundman, Gainesville, Florida, “Cooking Up Adventure,” CBS Channel 13, December 24, 2000.

 

Radio Category:

None awarded - insufficient entries.

 

Conservation/Environment Contest

Co-Sponsored by Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Alliance and Ducks Unlimited

Magazine Category:

1st place:  Gary Turbak, Missoula, Montana, “Food for Thought,” National Wildlife, October/November 2000.

2nd place: Mike Marsh, Wilmington, North Carolina, “Giant Science,” Wildlife Journal, Winter 2000.

3rd place: Mike Marsh, Wilmington, North Carolina, “Life at Landfall,” Wildlife Journal, Summer 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place: Phil Bloom, Fort Wayne, Indiana, “River of Death: Anglers fear paradise lost with White River fishkill,” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, January 9, 2000.

2nd place: Rich Landers, Spokane, Washington, “When flames run wild,” Spokesman-Review, October 8, 2000.

3rd place: Bill Graham, Platte City, Missouri, “Pure Prairie Project,” Kansas City Star, August 27, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place: Tim Christie, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, “Last Light,” Wyoming Wildlife, August 2000.

2nd place: Kent Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Mountain Goat at Mt. Rushmore,” National Wildlife, August 2000.

3rd place: Wendy Shattil and Bob Rozinski, Denver, Colorado, “Scott’s Oriole on cactus,” Birder’s World, April 2000.

 

Video Category:

1st place:  Ron Schara, Minneapolis, Minnesota, “Sandhill Crane,” KARE-11/NBC, October 2000.

2nd place: Bill Pryor, Billings, Montana, “Save the Yellowstone Trumpeter Swan,” KTVT/CBS, June 25, 2000.

3rd place: Betty Wills, Fort Worth, Texas, “The Gulf Sturgeon,” U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, July 2000.

 

Radio Category:

1st place: Bob Marshall, New Orleans, Louisiana, “Death of a Marsh,” Field & Stream Radio, January 29, 2000.

2nd place: Marty Malin, Laredo, Texas, “Yesterday’s Lessons,” The Wildlife Report, March 2000.

3rd place: Marty Malin, Laredo, Texas, “Adam Grimm, Federal Duck Stamp Winner,” The Wildlife Report, January 2000.

Family Participation/Youth Outdoor Education Contest

Co-Sponsored by Daisy Manufacturing and Realtree Camouflage

Magazine Category:

1st place: Kathy Etling, Osage Beach, Missouri, “The Ties That Bind,” Buckmaster’s, July/August 2000.

2nd place: Walt Hampton, Gloucester, Virginia, “Changing of the Guard,” Sporting Classics, March 2000.

3rd place: Walt Hampton, Gloucester, Virginia, “Changing of the Guard,” Sporting Classics, March 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place:  Scott Stouder, Corvallis, Oregon, “A belated Father’s Day message from a son,” Corvallis Gazette-Times, June 18, 2000.

2nd place:  Rich Landers, Spokane, Washington, “Pulling Their Own Weight,” Spokesman-Review, March 19, 2000.

3rd place: Thomas Stienstra, Weed, California, “Young Boys Education in the Art of Hunting,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 31, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place: David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “Sarah’s Hunt,” Texas Parks & Wildlife, September 2000.

2nd place: David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “First Hunt,” Hunting Labs Calendar, 2000.

3rd place: Tim Christie, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, “The Boy’s First Shot,” Mule Deer, Fall 2000.

 

Video Category:

1st place: Ron Schara, Minneapolis, Minnesota, “Father/Daughter at Recluse,” KARE-11/NBC, July 2000.

2nd place: Babe Winkelman, Nisswa, Minnesota, “Take Me Turkey Hunting,” WGN-TV, September 23, 2000.

3rd place: Ron Schara, Minneapolis, Minnesota, “Century of Syrup,” KARE-11/NBC, September 2000.

 

Radio Category:

None awarded - insufficient entries.

Freshwater Fishing Contest

Sponsored by Chevrolet Motor Division

Magazine Category:

1st place: Bruce Auchly, Great Falls, Montana, “In Praise of Little Streams,” Montana Outdoors, May/June 2000.

2nd place: Jim Casada, Rock Hill, South Carolina, “Back of Beyond in the High Country,” Trout, Spring 2000.

3rd place: Dave Vedder, Woodinville, Washington, “Dry Fly Coho,” Western Outdoors, February 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place:  Stephen Pollick, Fremont, Ohio, “Fly Fishing With Sarah,” Toledo Blade, August 3, 2000.

2nd place: Thomas Stienstra, Weed, California, “Treasuring Life During a Friend’s Dying Days,” San Francisco Examiner, December 17, 2000.

3rd place: Sam Cook, Duluth, Minnesota, “Boy’s first musky a big memory-maker,” Duluth News Tribune, July 23, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place: Judd Cooney, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, “Brown Trout,” Sportsman’s Guide calendar, May 2000.

2nd place: Jack Bissell, Batesville, Arkansas, “Crappie Stringer Underwater,” Arkansas Wildlife, Spring 2000.

3rd place: Jim Spencer, Little Rock, Arkansas, “Striking largemouth,” Arkansas Wildlife, November/December 2000. 

 

Video Category:

1st place: Dan Larson, Anoka, Minnesota, “Alaskan Pike,” ESPN, April 29, 2000.

2nd place: Babe Winkelman, Nisswa, Minnesota, “Untold Crappie Riches,” WGN-TV, April 7, 2000.

3rd place:  Babe Winkelman, Nisswa, Minnesota, “Angling the Amazon,” WGN-TV, March 11 and 18, 2000.

 

Radio Category:

1st place: Peter Mathiesen, St. Louis, Missouri, “Day Two of the Classic,” Field & Stream Radio, October 21, 2000.

2nd place:  Marty Malin, Laredo, Texas, “Crappi,” The Wildlife Report, May 2000.

3rd place: Marty Malin, Laredo, Texas, “Race Fishing,” The Wildlife Report, April 2000.

Humor Contest

Sponsored by OWAA

Magazine Category:

1st place: Pat Wray, Corvallis, Oregon, “Sting,” Game & Fish Publications, February 2000.

2nd place: Jim Mize, Simpsonville, South Carolina, “Signs Your Retriever’s Smarter Than You,” Retriever Journal, September/October 2000.

3rd place: Bruce Cochran, Prairie Village, Kansas, “Confessions of a Capaholic,” Wyoming Wildlife, September 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place: Terry Richard, Portland, Oregon, “K2 Karakoram – The Mountain,” The Oregonian, October 29, 2000.

2nd place: Dave Engerbretson, Moscow, Idaho, “Fly Fishing Rich with Tradition” and “Tale of the Corpulent Duke and his Wading Staff,” (2-part series), Moscow-Pullman Daily News, February 21, 2000 and March 6, 2000.

3rd place: Mark Freeman, Medford, Oregon, “Sadly Breaking the Bond of Trust,” Medford Mail Tribune, May 25, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

None awarded – insufficient entries

 

Video Category:

None awarded – insufficient entries.

 

Radio Category:

None awarded – insufficient entries.

 

Natural History Contest

Sponsored by OWAA

Magazine Category:

1st place: Jerry Dennis, Traverse City, Michigan, “Landmarks,” Country Journal, November/December 2000.

2nd place: Keith Sutton, Alexander, Arkansas, “Last Dance,” Arkansas Wildlife, November 2000.

3rd place: King Montgomery, Annandale, Virginia, “Water: Cradle of Life,” Virginia Wildlife, March 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place: Mark Freeman, Medford, Oregon, “Cracking the Case of the Offbeat Antlers,” Medford Mail Tribune, October 29, 2000.

2nd place: Steve Griffin, Midland, Michigan, “Life and Death: A Natural Drama,” Midland Daily News, June 22, 2000.

3rd place:  Scott Stouder, Corvallis, Oregon, “On Earth Day, How We See the World is Changing,” Corvallis Gazette-Times, April 23, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place:  David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “Flushing pheasant,” Texas Parks & Wildlife, December 2000.

2nd place: Charles Willey, Lemington, Vermont, “Family Portrait,” Forest Notes, Spring 2000.

3rd place: Gene Hester, Springfield, Virginia, “Whitetail Bucks Fighting,” Wildlife in North Carolina, November 2000.

 

Video Category:

1st place: Randall Eaton, Enterprise, Oregon, “Orca: The Sacred Whale,” TV12 Aspen, 2000.

2nd place: Betty Wills, Ft. Worth, Texas, “The Gulf Sturgeon,” U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, July 2000.

3rd place: Betty Wills, Ft. Worth, Texas, “Lake Sturgeon: Dinosaurs of the Great Lakes,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, July 2000.

 

Radio Category:

None awarded – insufficient entries.

 

Newspaper Outdoor Page Award

Sponsored by OWAA

Page Category:

1st place: Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Phil Bloom, Outdoor Writer

1st Honorable Mention: Record Searchlight, Redding, California, Thom Gabrukiewicz, Outdoors Editor.

2nd Honorable Mention: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, Gary Fallesen, Outdoors Writer.

 

Section Category:

1st place:  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Rich Landers, Outdoors Editor.

1st Honorable Mention: Duluth News-Tribune, Duluth, Minnesota, Sam Cook and John Myers, Outdoors Writers.

2nd Honorable Mention: Charleston Daily Mail, Charleston, West Virginia, John McCoy, Outdoors Writer.

Outdoor Ethics Contest

Co-Sponsored by Izaak Walton League of America and National Wild Turkey Federation

Magazine Category:

1st place: Randall Eaton, Enterprise, Oregon, “Proper Hunting Initiation Could Curb Teen Violence,” North American Hunter, June/July 2000.

2nd place: Keith Sutton, Alexander, Arkansas, “The Obligations of Influence,” SEOPA News, June 2000.

3rd place: Tom Watson, Winona, Minnesota, “Wildlife Viewing – Intruder or Passing Guest,” Focus 10,000, August 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place:  Joseph Doggett, Houston, Texas, “Elimination of Guns Not The Answer,” Houston Chronicle, July 4, 2000.

2nd place: Scott Stouder, Corvallis, Oregon, “Back to Basics,” Corvallis Gazette-Times, August 13, 2000.

3rd place: Michael Babcock, Great Falls, Montana, “Hunt Ethics Are Not Black and White,” Great Falls Tribune, November 9, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category

1st place:  David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “Ask First,” Field & Stream, September 2000.

2nd place: Doug Stamm, Sauk City, Wisconsin, “Dad & Daughter on the Brule,” Arkansas Wildlife, Spring 2000.

3rd place:  Judd Cooney, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, “Lessons,” Jakes, Fall 2000.

 

Video Category:

1st place: Randall Eaton, Enterprise, Oregon, “The Sacred Hunt: Hunting as a Sacred Path,” TV 12, Aspen, 2000.

2nd place: Bill Pryor, Billings, Montana, “Save the Yellowstone Trumpeter Swan,” KTVQ/CBS, June 25, 2000.

3rd place: Bill Pryor, Billings, Montana, “Ethical Shotgunners,” KULR-8/NBC, October 23, 2000.

 

Radio Category:

1st place: Slaton White, New York, New York, “Bass Fishing Tournaments,” Field & Stream Radio, October 21, 2000.

2nd place: Bob Marshall, New Orleans, Louisiana, “They Shoot Fish Don’t They,” Field & Stream Radio, July 15, 2000.

3rd place:  Marty Malin, Laredo, Texas, “Baffin Bay,” The Wildlife Report, June 2000.

Outdoor Recreational Travel Contest

Sponsored by OWAA

Magazine Category:

1st place:  Linda Steiner, Cooperstown, Pennsylvania, “Happy Trails,” Pennsylvania Game News, August 2000.

2nd place: Gail Jokerst, West Glacier, Montana, “Three Forks,” Montana Living, Fall 2000.

3rd place: Gary Turbak, Missoula, Montana, “Hit the Retirement Road,” Kiwanis Magazine, October 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place: Thomas Stienstra, Weed, California, “Adventures in Cuban Series,” (4-part series), San Francisco Examiner, July 23-26, 2000.

2nd place: Jill Easton, Long Beach, Mississippi, “Mountains of Fun,” The Sun Herald, April 2, 2000.

3rd place: Rich Landers, Spokane, Washington, “Taking the High Road,” Spokesman Review, September 24, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place: Kent Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Backpacker and Golden,” Backpacker, April 2000.

2nd place: Donna dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “RV Trail,” Escapees, May 2000.

3rd place: Tom Wharton, Salt Lake City, Utah, “Mexican Beach,” Salt Lake Tribune, March 19, 2000.

 

Video Category:

1st place: Jack Abrams and Dan Small, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “Door County USA,” WMVS Television, September 7, 2000.

2nd place:  Babe Winkelman, Nisswa, Minnesota, “Angling the Amazon,” WGN TV, March 11 and 18, 2000.

3rd place: Ray Eng, Nisswa, Minnesota, “Alaskan Gators,” WGN TV, March 3, 2000.

 

Photo Contest

Sponsored by Nikon Sport Optics

Color Category

Action:

1st place: Tim Christie, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, “Fight”

2nd place: Charles Willey, Lemington, Vermont, “Winged Angler”

3rd place: Derrick Hamrick, Linn, Texas, “Owl Prowl”

Fauna:

1st place: Tom Ulrich, West Glacier, Montana, “Rocky Mountain Bighorn”

2nd place:  Charles Willey, Lemington, Vermont,  “Concealed in Colors (moose)”

3rd place:  Richard Grost, Idleyld Park, Oregon, “Hatching Steelhead”

Flora:

1st place: Tim Christie, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho,  “Cow Parsnip”

2nd place: Timothy Flanigan, Bedford, Pennsylvania, “Winter Berries”

3rd place:  Richard Grost, Idleyld Park, Oregon, “Peeling Green”

People:

1st place: Mike Searles, Duncanville, Texas, “Young Photographer”

2nd place:  Steve Maslowski, Cincinnati, Ohio, “Birders in Purple”

3rd place: Mike Searles, Duncanville, Texas, “Starting Young”

Scenic:

1st place:  Doug Stamm, Sauk City, Wisconsin, “First Flight Out”

2nd place: Bob Rozinski, Denver, Colorado, “Wild Iris and Surroundings”

3rd place: Joseph Byers, Hagerstown, Maryland, “Under the Rainbow”

Black & White Category:

Action:

1st place:  Kent Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Racing Team”

2nd place: Brent Frazee, Kansas City, Missouri, “Retrieve”

3rd place: John Beath, Monroe, Washington,  “Whale of a Time”

Fauna:

1st place: John Beath, Monroe, Washington, “This Otter Be Good”

2nd place: Jon Blumb, Lawrence, Kansas, “Magnum”

3rd place: John Beath, Monroe, Washington, “Why the Long Face”

Flora:

1st place: Chris Walker, Carbondale, Illinois, “Turks Cap Lilies”

2nd place: Kent Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Clematis Seeds”

3rd place: Donna Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Limber Pine”

People:

1st place: Brent Frazee, Lawrence, Kansas, “Duck Alert”

2nd place: Donna Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Future Musher”

3rd place: Brent Frazee, Lawrence, Kansas, “Poling the Marsh”

Scenic:

1st place: Brent Frazee, Lawrence, Kansas, “Arkansas View”

2nd place: Brent Frazee, Lawrence, Kansas, “Dusk at Milford Lake”

3rd place: Donna Dannen, Allenspark, Colorado, “Longs Peak”

Saltwater Fishing Contest

Sponsored by OWAA

Magazine Category:

1st place: Jack Fallon, Nashua, New Hampshire, “Sea Trout Go Bragh,” Saltwater Fly Fishing, December 2000.

2nd place: John Beath, Monroe, Washington, “Spoon Feeding Salmon,” Western Outdoors, May 2000.

3rd place:  Doug Olander, Winter Park, Florida, “Cuda! Close-Quarters Combat,” Sport Fishing, November/December 2000.

 

Newspaper Category

1st place: Joseph Doggett, Houston, Texas, “Taking a Sailfish on the Fly,” Houston Chronicle, February 24, 2000.

2nd place: Richard Stoll, Poulson, Washington, “Why do Salmon Jump? Depends on Who You Ask,” Central Kitsap Reporter, October 18, 2000.

3rd place: Rich Landers, Spokane, Washington, “Fishing Frontier,” Spokesman-Review, July 2, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

1st place:  David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “Drum School,” Texas Parks & Wildlife, February 2000.

2nd place: David Sams, Dallas, Texas, “Jetty Cast,” Texas Parks & Wildlife, June 2000.

3rd place: Bill Lindner, St. Paul, Minnesota, “Fly-casting to Mangroves at Sunrise,” Florida Sportsman Redfish & Trout Annual, Summer 2000.

 

Video Category:

None awarded - insufficient entries.

 

Radio Category:

None awarded - insufficient entries.

Shooting Sports Contest

Sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation

Magazine Category:

1st place: Joe Byers, Hagerstown, Maryland, “Bootcamp for Bowhunters,” Heartland USA, May/June 2000.

2nd place: Marilyn Stone, Pleasant View, Utah, “Right on Target,” Petersen’s Outdoors for Women, September 2000.

3rd place: Ron Kolodziej, Amsterdam, New York, “Enjoy Shooting Sports ‘The Cowboy Way’,” New York Fishing & Hunting News, June 2000.

 

Newspaper Category:

1st place:  John McCoy, Barboursville, West Virginia, “A Legend in Buckskins,” Charleston Daily Mail, February 4, 2000.

2nd place: Paul Smith, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, “Tops in His Field,” Racine Journal Times, August 11, 2000.

3rd place:  Dave Strege, Brea, California, “Opening Shots,” Orange County Register, November 30, 2000.

 

Art/Photo Category:

None awarded - insufficient entries 

 

Video Category:

1st place: Douglas Miller, Salt Lake City, Utah, “Crazy Snipe,” KSL-TV, August 5, 2000.