OWAA OUTDOOR VOICES
Use Your Outdoor Voices
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A fond farewell
By Robin Giner — From the time I was young, raised by my parents on a homestead in rural northern Wisconsin, my life has been influenced by the lessons and values of what is now called the voluntary simplicity movement.
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It's about suicide, guns not so much
By Paul Quinnett, PH.D. — Mass murderers never ask themselves, “And after I kill all these innocent people, how will I escape?”…
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Diversity and OWAA
By Glenn Sapir — Creating diversity within OWAA is a classic chicken-and-egg situation.
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Get out of your box
By Peter Schroeder — We all have our special markets for our articles and photos…
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After further review
By W.H. “Chip” Gross — As outdoor writers, seldom do we pen hard-hitting, investigative-type stories…
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Conservation writing: The outdoor media's dirty little secret
By Beau Beasley — “Beau, we’re simply not going to run this conservation piece you’ve sent us. Furthermore, if the editor ever offers to run anything like this from you again, I’ve told him he’ll be fired.”…
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APPly yourself
By Risa Wyatt — What the heck is an app, anyway? Should you be creating one? Can it make you money?…
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Writing for 1A: For freelancers
By Mark Freeman — Freelance writers who have tapped their newspaper’s outdoors budget still have other larger and more prominent sections to mine…
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Dealing with criticism
By Joel Vance — As a veteran (victim? survivor?) of more than 50 years of communicating via the written word, I testify that there is no thing you can write that won’t tick someone off…
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Lake Placid: history and homework
By Lisa Densmore — Happy New Year! As you make plans to explore Lake Placid and the Adirondacks this year in conjunction with the 2013 OWAA annual conference…
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First Vanishing Paradise national conservation pro staff announced
The Vanishing Paradise coalition is taking a huge step forward by announcing the makeup of its 30-member volunteer promotional staff …
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Hobie Outdoor Adventures
Hobie Outdoor Adventures is a 13-week series airing the first quarter of 2012 on NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus) and on the Texas Channel …