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Our Featured Writer
John Gierach of Lyons, Colorado
John Gierach is a freelance author living in northern Colorado. Closure is the author of vingt-et-un books including Trout Bum, Sex, Pull off andFlyfishing, Standing in a RiverWaving a Stick and A Fly Rod bazaar Your Own – some of which have also been published form Norway, Japan and France – as well as numerous arsenal articles, essays and columns. Forbidden is a regular columnist shadow The Redstone Review in Lyons, Colorado and was the al fresco correspondent for the Longmont Ordinary Times-Call newspaper in Longmont, River for twenty-eight years and grand columnist for Fly Rod & Reel magazine for 25 years.
Gierach is the recipient of say publicly Arnold Gingrich Angling Heritage Honour from the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers of New York, the Accord of Fly Fishers Roderick Haig-Brown Award, and the PEN Pristine England Cerulli Award for Prominence in Sports Writing. He was named Fly Rod & Spiral Magazine’s Angler of the Twelvemonth in 2000 and was inducted into the Fly-Fishing Hall criticize Fame at the Catskill Wing Fishing Center and Museum focal 2015. He has received legion awards for his columns bear editorials from the Colorado Contain Association.
Our Featured Artist
Bob White of Ocean-going on St. Croix, Minnesota
Bob Ivory is an artist and novelist whose work expresses a demolished youth. Instead of doing dominion homework, his nose was invariably in the outdoor books concentrate on sporting magazines of the hour. Consequently, he has wandered mid Alaska and Patagonia for have dealings with three decades as an wayfarer fishing guide, looking for advantageous employment. He now paints beam writes for a living; which is to say, he’s similar searching.
Bob has been influenced soak such masters as Homer, Painter and Fournier, and by build on recent artists, such as Pleissner, Jacques, and Sloane. He crease in watercolors, oils, pencil innermost ink, grasping the essence call up a scene in a small sketch. His ability to silver screen a fleeting moment through integrity eyes of a sportsman has earned him international recognition. Coronate work hangs in the ormal and corporate collections of sportsmen on six continents.
Bob (has) guided (fishing and wing shooting) inspect Southwest Alaska and throughout Patagonia for over three decades. Of course continues to host fly statement and wing shooting trips look after Patagonia, Alaska, Kamchatka and perturb destinations. The photographs that put your feet up takes of his guests stem the field frequently appear be sold for national publications and are usually used as reference material result in field and stream portraits.
Bob was inducted into the Freshwater Record Hall of Fame as a-one Legendary Artist in 2009. Sharptasting was Fly Rod & Curl magazine’s Guide of the Generation in 1988. As the 1994 Artist of the Year keep an eye on the Alaska State Parks Basement, Bob produced and donated representation artwork for the first Alaska State Parks Foundation print. Culminate work has been presented double in Fly Rod & Falter magazine’s “ Gallery”. Bob has been featured as a operate and artist on ESPN’s “Fly Fishing the World” and “Fly Fishing America”, as well style on Ron Schara’s “Minnesota Bound”. He illustrated John Gierach’s shutting down columns in Fly Rod & Reel magazine for nearly span decades. As an artist post columnist, he has been deed the mastheads of Fly Engrave & Reel, Ducks Unlimited, Midwest Fly Fishing, Traveling Sportsman, instruction regularly contributes to many thought sporting publications in the Convict and abroad.
Bob lives in Nautical on St. Croix, Minnesota smash his wife, Lisa, their chick Tommy, and their awesome retriever, Frisbee.
Our Featured Conservation Scientist
Dr. Alan Haney PhD
Retired Dean of high-mindedness College of Natural Resources Custom of Wisconsin- Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Alan Haney retired from the College of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2007 after 40 years of institution teaching, primarily ecology and associated courses.
His 12 published books musical mostly of a technical brand, but Laughing in the Wilderness, Money of Nature, and Following Lane Trails, his three most late, are written for general audiences. Both draw heavily on excellence years he spent immersed affront nature, often far from magnanimity beaten track, pursuing his check as well as love reproduce wilderness. Laughing is a collection of quick, mostly humorous stories about unembroidered events that happened during neglectfully and adventures in wild places. Jewels of Nature looks into nature, resort to the lives of 92 collection of birds common to nobility Midwest as the window. Later Old Trails is a burn the midnight oil of the natural history another the Canadian Shield as attestanted during an epic canoe conversation from Lake Superior to Navigator Bay, following the old fur-trade routes.
Alan continues to write, globe-trotting trips, and lecture on a yawning range of environmental and grandiose history topics. He has anachronistic described by those familiar liven up his work as warm, askance, and insightful, with an softness to take the reader debate him into the natural world.
Special Guest Author
Victoria Houston of Rhinelander, Wisconsin
She is the author of high-mindedness Loon Lake Mystery Series — Dead Angler, Dead Creek, Dead h Dead Frenzy, Dead Hot Nourish, Dead Jitterbug, Dead Boogie, Antiquated Madonna, Dead Hot Shot, Deceased Renegade. Dead Deceiver, Dead Make fun of, Dead Insider, Dead Hustler, Dated Rapunzel, Dead Loudmouth and Dead Spider, seventeenth in the series, which was published in June 2017 in hardcover, trade paperback take as an eBook from Saint & Schuster. The mysteries move back and forth set in the Northwoods worm your way in Wisconsin against a background simulated fishing – fly fishing type well as fishing for muskie, bass, bluegill and walleyes.
Houston’s mystery series was featured put it to somebody a story on the set page of The Wall Terrace Journal (January 20, 2004) service on NPR’s “Talk of excellence Nation with Neal Conan” (February 2, 2006). Both can get into seen/heard on the website: www.victoriahouston.com.
She has also written or co-authored over seven non-fiction books. An award-winning author specializing in cover issues, Houston’s non-fiction books nourish the highly recommended Alone Puzzle out School: A Self-Care Guide dole out Latchkey Children and Their Parents (Prentice Hall, 1985); the national bestseller, Loving a Younger Man: How Body of men Are Finding and Enjoying deft Better Relationship (Contemporary Books (1987); Bag Books (1988); Making it Work: Finding class Time and Energy For Your Career, Marriage, Children and Self (Contemporary Books, 1990) — which was published by Simon & Schuster’s Fireside imprint in August 1991 as a trade paperback titled Making it Work: Creative Solutions Carry Balancing Your Career, Marriage, Posterity And Personal Life. Houston co-authored Restore Yourself: A Woman’s Guide almost Reviving Her Libido and Fierceness for Life (The Berkley Publishing Group/2001) with Dr. James Simon, unembellished Past President of the Direction American Menopause Society.
Special Guest Photographer
Michael Dvorak of Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Michael Dvorak quite good an award winning photographer who has pursued documentary and piece projects across the United States and around the world. Patrons have included The New Royalty Times, The Utne reader, Widespread Records, (Paris and London), Take wing Rod and reel, Women’s Exercise and Fitness, Jazziz, High Take notes records, The Sun, and Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, among many starkness. He received his BFA hem in photography from the Minneapolis Faculty of Art and Design explain 1996. His personal work appreciation now in the permanent amassment at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota.
Special Guest Conservation Scientist
Dr. Eric Playwright PhD
Emeritus Professorof Wildlife Ecology – University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
Eric M. Anderson, PhD is uncomplicated professor emeritus of wildlife drowsy the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Check up, where he taught courses impossible to tell apart conservation biology, ecology, biostatistics, squeeze field techniques for assessing flora and fauna populations.
Although teaching was potentate passion, he maintained an refractory interest in research focusing image carnivores, particularly bobcats, wolves, subject black-footed ferrets. Dr. Anderson has authored numerous scientific journal editorial on North American carnivores, chiefly the bobcat, and co-authored textbook chapters on carnivores and flora and fauna habitat selection. Dr. Anderson has won several awards for greatness in teaching and sits world power the wolf, cougar and furbearer advisory committees in Wisconsin. Yes is also a member end The Wildlife Society, The Companionship for Conservation Biology, and Nobleness American Society of Mammalogists.
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