OWAA OUTDOOR VOICES
Use Your Outdoor Voices
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The press release is dead: Embrace new ways to reach readers
For those of us in the public relations realm, the press release is an old friend. Trustworthy, humble, familiar: The press release has served us well.
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Advice from the other side: Media and media relations people share do’s and don’ts to work together
It’s sometimes a love-hate relationship between reporters and public relations specialists, but anyone in the business knows, they need each other to each do their job.
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Beyond a basic byline: Creating a personal brand to earn more work
Writing headlines used to be an essential part of my job as a newspaper editor. My boss said he could always tell which headlines I wrote and which other editors created.
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Lessons learned: Ducks Unlimited vs. Don Thomas
As a freelance writer and photographer, every time a magazine changes editors, I feel vulnerable, and I wonder if the new one will want my work.
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Letters to the Editor
Thank you for reviewing the paperback version of my newest book, Bears in the Backyard. While reading Bookshelf, it occurred to me that there seems to be no distinction made between books that were published by traditional publishers and those that were self published.
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Gogal Publishing releases fourth edition of Stream Map USA app
Gogal Publishing released the fourth edition of its GPS enabled Stream Map USA app for iPhone and iPad.
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OWAA all-star members
As I enter my third month as OWAA’s president (fourth by the time you read this), I continually marvel at the depth OWAA’s and breadth of experience you, the members of OWAA and its supporters, have and how generous you are to share your knowledge with the rest of us.
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2015 Norm Strung Youth Writing Awards
Winning entries from the 2014 Norm Strung Youth Writing Awards – prizes awarded for both prose and poetry, in junior and senior categories.
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Bookshelf
Best Rail Trails Pacific Northwest; More Than 60 Rail Trails in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, Second Edition
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Welcome to OWAA
While growing up, Pete Anderson’s father took him and his brother to lakes and rivers across upstate New York.
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Land and Water Conservation Fund Coalition: Saving America’s most important conservation program
Dysfunction in Washington has claimed another victim. On Sept. 30, Congress allowed America’s most important conservation program to expire, putting our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and outdoor recreation areas at risk.
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Endangered Species Act faces extinction
“Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed,” Richard Nixon said on signing the Endangered Species Act in 1973.