OWAA OUTDOOR VOICES
Use Your Outdoor Voices
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Single-track paradise
There are six IMBA Gold Level Ride Centers in the world. Duluth, Minnesota, is one of them.
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Once gone, public land is hard to get back again
Want to buy hunting property for less than 3 cents an acre? You’ll need to go back to 1803 and buy about 530,000,000 acres to get that bargain price.
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Covering wildland firefighter discrimination and assault
When Krista Langlois set out in 2014 to report on Women in Wildland Fire boot camps, she thought her story would be a day-in-the-life type piece on the experience.
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Capturing the northern lights
No pencil can draw it, no colors can paint it and no words can describe the magnificence when it fills the sky with dancing colors. The aurora borealis, or northern lights, electrify the sky, creating a dazzling spectacle to witness, but a challenging phenomenon to duly capture in photographs.
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The art of the interview
Interviewing is an intimate method of harvesting a person’s experience, observations or expertise for a story. The kid who caught a state-record fish and the hiker who completed the Appalachian Trail in record time are initially just a few numbers and some background on a page.
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Adventure awaits in Duluth, Minnesota
The first thing I do when the location for a future OWAA conference is announced is ponder the possibilities for adventure.
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Happy birthday OWAA
On April 9, 1927, a small group of writers attending the Izaak Walton League of America convention in Chicago decided to form a professional organization for outdoor writers.
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A fishing frenzy in Duluth
If you’re coming to Duluth in June, pack your fishing gear. June is prime fishing time in the North Country, and there’s so much opportunity for excellent angling in our neighborhood, you’ll want to sample some of it.
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Five decades of OWAA
In honor of OWAA’s 90th birthday, Outdoors Unlimited asked five past presidents, each representing a different decade, to talk about their year in office and what they hope for the organization in the future.
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ARGO Celebrates 50 years of its Amphibious Xtreme Terrain Vehicle (XTV) with Exclusive Limited Edition Model
To celebrate the brand’s 50th anniversary, ARGO is excited to launch the most exclusive vehicle yet to its Wilderness Series XTV lineup – a special ‘ARGO 50th Anniversary Limited Edition 2017 Avenger 8×8 Hunt Master R’.
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Welcome to OWAA
Will Cooper was born and raised near the sandy beaches of Southern California. At a young age he developed a passion for exploration — from hiking into storm tunnels as a child to running 100-mile mountain races around the world. Cooper earned his bachelor’s degree from American University’s School of International Service. He is the…
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Return of rice on the St. Louis River
Tom Howes explained in Anishinaabe, then in English, why restoring wild rice to the St. Louis River is so important to the Fond du Lac Indian people.
