A few weeks ago my good friend, Todd Rost of Faribault, Minnesota, was kayaking down the Cannon River when he came upon an unusual sight. From a distance he could tell that fishing line had entangled…
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Here’s a quick video link showing a nifty technique on how to remove an impaled fish hook. This sort of advice is something everyone should know before heading out on the waters for your next angling…
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If a big black bear dies in the woods on private property, who gets the carcass? via www.startribune.com Today, the Minnesota Appellate Court found that a landowner who had found a dead bear on his property was entitled to the ownership of the carcass (which died of natural causes). The Minnesota DNR had originally [...]
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I write this blog post with lots of mixed emotions. Back in 1989, when I attended my first Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference in Des Moines, Iowa, I was in awe. There must have b…
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Presented by John Beath (OWAA president): Use YouTube videos to drive traffic to your site. Brand your videos in the editing process (both when the video starts and ends). You must be entertaining, informative or both. You need to have good sound for your videos. Always offer an interesting background. Use videos to entertain your [...]
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Craft improvement presentation by Lisa Densmore: Universal rules: Treat the video camera as a person. Minimize hand movement — don’t point at the camera, if it’s obvious, you don’t need to point to the object shown in the video. Slow down — speak decisively. Eliminate the “um’s” and the “Uh’s” — silence is better. Don’t [...]
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Presented by John (Duke) Welter, vice-chair of the National Board of Trustees, Trout Unlimited. 24,000 square mile area in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. Characterized by a limestone bedrock that was not part of the last glacier activity (10,000 to 12,000 years ago) Other names are blufflands, coulee regions—depending on the location. Basically same area. Contains [...]
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The following notes were taken from a craft improvement session of the Outdoor Writers Assn of America (annual conference) on the topic of Sponsored Blogs and Innovative Web Opportunities — presented by Kim Kavin, past president of Boating Writers International (www.bwi.org). www.boatermouth.com and www.charterwave.com are her two websites. If you learn just a little about [...]
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Continued from part one… Bill Powell (OWAA legal counsel) (Practices law in Columbus, MO.) (Freelance writer) Choice of a business entity. Be yourself. Be professional and accurate. Copyright — the right to profit from any creative work. Generally the person who creates the work is the owner of the right to copy that work and [...]
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The following blog post is notes taken from an Outdoor Writers Association of America conference geared toward beginning outdoor communicators. The content is provided from the perspective of a number…
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