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  Outdoor Writers Association of America created a new event:

  

  2019 OWAA Conference

  OWAA conference is an opportunity for outdoor communicators and outdoor groups, businesses and agencies that are involved in the world of outdoor communication to learn and connect with others in the industry. It gives attendees a chance to network with o...

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  • June 17, 2018
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  E2M: OWAA celebrates 85th anniversary
  
  April 9, 2012, marks the 85th anniversary of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. With the goal to be “the voice of the outdoors,” the organization was established by outdoor writing legends Jack Miner, Zane...  moreOWAA celebrates 85th anniversary
  
  April 9, 2012, marks the 85th anniversary of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. With the goal to be “the voice of the outdoors,” the organization was established by outdoor writing legends Jack Miner, Zane Grey, Morris Ackermann and approximately forty others, during an Izaak Walton League conference in Chicago, Ill., on April 9, 1927.
  
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  OWAA celebrates 85th anniversary - Outdoor Writers Association o

  An open house will be held April 10 to celebrate OWAA’s 85th anniversary. Join us at OWAA headquarters for hor d’oeuvres and drinks …

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  • June 17, 2018
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  E2M: OWAA celebrates its 90th birthday
  
  https://owaa.org/ou/2016/06/looking-back-moving-forward/

  Looking back while moving forward - Outdoors Unlimited® Online

  OWAA celebrates its 90th birthday next year. With such a big birthday looming (celebration preparations are in the works now), and as my year serving as your president winds down, it’s only natural to look back not only over the last year, but also over OW

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  • June 17, 2018
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  E2M: It’s no surprise the Outdoor Writers Association
  of America®, an organization dedicated to all
  things outdoors, was founded during a wilder era
  of the United States. While bootleggers...  moreIt’s no surprise the Outdoor Writers Association
  of America®, an organization dedicated to all
  things outdoors, was founded during a wilder era
  of the United States. While bootleggers supplied
  brown-bag liquor, our founders provided the
  public with words and images of the conservation
  movement. In 1927, at the Fifth Annual Izaak
  Walton League of America’s National Convention
  in Chicago, 18 journalists formed the Outdoor
  Writers Association of America®, dedicated to “the
  purpose of bettering of our profession, to give more
  stability and standing to the same, and to eliminate
  untruths from stories of the outdoors...”
  Morris Ackerman, a Georgia lawyer-turned-writer,
  led the movement. He wrote the  rst-ever
  outdoor column for The Cleveland Leader. Readers
  loved it. Ackerman became the outdoor editor
  of The Cleveland Daily News, a new position that
  caught on at newspapers nationwide. His efforts
  and those of his peers created this  eld that
  continues today. OWAA remains the oldest and
  largest...    less

  https://owaa.org/file/individual-membership-brochure-2016.pdf

  https://owaa.org/file/individual-membership-brochure-2016.pdf

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  • June 17, 2018
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  Outdoor Writers Association of America updated a new cover photo.

  

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  • June 17, 2018