OWAA OUTDOOR VOICES
Use Your Outdoor Voices
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Welcome to OWAA
Lisa Baril is a writer and wildlife biologist living and working in Yellowstone National Park. She earned a degree in biology from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2000, then spent the next five years traveling throughout the United States and Central America to see what biologists really did for a living.
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Find stories in park service’s centennial celebration
The National Park Service’s 100th anniversary this year is the biggest event in a century for America’s public lands, and although the actual date won’t roll around until Aug. 25, the park service has planned a yearlong celebration to mark this milestone.
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Board service benefits: Reasons to get involved in OWAA
I hear ocean. I smell salt, but I’m camped out in a conference room and what I see around the table has most of my attention.
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Science writing simplified
It’s one thing to understand the science in a story, it’s another to convey that to readers with varying levels of understanding of the topic.
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Back to basics: Advice for writers and editors
Being a good writer or editor requires at least one thing: You must learn from your mistakes and never make the same error twice.
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Crossover appeal: Finding stories in unexpected places
I’ve been a freelance outdoor writer specializing in paddle sports, camping and other adventuring for more than 30 years.
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Capturing a sense of place
It was an opportunity for the shot of a lifetime: a polar bear swimming the Churchill River in northern Manitoba.
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Magazines with a mission: Freelancing for NGO and agency publications
Although every magazine has a mission — for most it is making a profit — there is a segment of the market that puts purpose ahead of profit.
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OWAA board member Sam Caldwell named as one of two inductees to the Perry Bass Wall of Fame
Monday, March 21, 2015 at Noon in the Maritime Collections and Education Center of the Texas Maritime Museum, two individuals will be inducted into the Texas Maritime Museum’s Perry R. Bass Memorial Sports Fishing Wall of Fame.
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It's Official – Ike Likes Hobie
Mike Iaconelli is the only angler to have won the Bassmaster Classic, Bassmaster Angler of the Year and B.A.S.S. Nation Championship. And now he has teamed up with Hobie, the worldwide leader in kayak fishing, to spread the word that kayak fishing in a Hobie is to be reckoned with.
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CSF, RMEF Join Forces to Advocate for Sportsmen and Women
The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) signed a partnership that fosters greater cooperation to jointly advance the outdoor traditions of hunting, angling, recreational shooting and trapping at the state and national levels of government, where many of the decisions impacting such activities are made.
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Montana is magical in the summer
As much as I love winter, it often feels like I tolerate nine or 10 months of it, just to enjoy two to three months of incredible summers.