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Liz Elling

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Liz Elling, a west side Ann Arbor resident, spent two weeks in July of 2007 swimming the length of the Huron River. The 100-mile swim was intended as a publicity stunt to raise awareness of watershed issues, and as a fundraiser for the Huron River Watershed Council. Elling succeeded on both points, with her swim getting press attention and requests for speaking engagements six months later, in addition to the $47,500 raised for the Council.

Elling is a Sault Sainte Marie native who came to Ann Arbor as a student, later returning to school for a masters degree from the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. She dedicated a previous distance swim, a 2001 trip around the Leelenau Peninsula, to environmental educator and Nobel Prize nominee Bill Stapp, whom she met at SNRE.