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1 OUTDOOR LORE Newsletter of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio Spring 2012 President’s Message By Tim Snyder Inside this issue: Another fine OWO annual getting a great conference conference has passed into lined up, so mark your cal- history and a great one it endars now. Be sure to Meet the Board 3 was. We kayaked on the look through the business Loewendick Pens Works 4 Little Miami River, zip- meeting minutes which you lined through the air, will find in a future news- Could you be a 5 letter. Business Writer? learned about all sorts of things, ate well and had a Those who took a close Spotlight Ashtabula Co. 6 general good time. Con- look at the new OWO Di- Scholarship Winner 6 gratulations and a big rectory noticed a blank Thank You to conference where one board member’s Tim Snyder , President Lau Inducted Hall of Fame 7 committee chair Jeff name should be. Ballots Frischkorn and all his able TV Series Premiers 7 were slow coming in this helpers for giving us a su- year and the Directory During the Saturday lunch, Welcome New Members 8 per conference. Special went to the printer before a we were honored to have thanks, also, to the support- final tally was made. You ODNR Director James Mohican-Loudonville Info 8 ing members whose partic- can fill in the blank now. Zehringer address the Member News & Views 9 ipation helped make the Scott Carpenter was elect- group. It is always good to conference such a success. ed to replace Chip Hart get the view “from the Conference Highlights 9 Several items of interest who completed his term top,” so to speak. As out- came out of the general this year. Another new door communicators, it membership meeting dur- name on the Board is Jeff behooves us to gather all Huxmann who was ap- Contributing Writers ing the conference. Both the information we can constitutional amendments pointed to finish out Vicki about the agencies and or- Jeff Frischkorn proposed in an earlier edi- Mountz’s term after she ganizations involved in W.H. “Chip” Gross tion of LORE were passed. resigned for personal rea- protecting, improving and Jeff Huxmann John Hageman, 2013 con- sons. Thanks to the out- managing the things we going board members for Bob Loewendick ference committee chair, feel so strongly about. The reported that we will be the fine work they did, and economic downturn has not Mike Mainhart going back to Put-in-Bay greetings to our two addi- been kind to ODNR. There Patty McNutt next year, just in time for tions. We welcome their are good things happening, Ralph Ramey the two-hundredth anniver- enthusiasm. Scott, of as Director Zehringer course, is an old hand at Fred Snyder sary of the Battle of Lake pointed out, but one Erie which, I believe it is this, having previously doesn’t have to dig far to Tim Snyder safe to say, was the only served on the board and as learn that all is not as well major naval battle to take president. His experience as it could be in the Emer- place in or near Ohio. He is will be invaluable. ald City. 2 OUTDOOR LORE continued President’s Message Consider this: Not too many years ago It is our job to ferret out the truth, to pull off the rosy carpet spread over OWO the Division of Parks and Recreation had over 1000 employees. Now it is uncomfortable situations and let the We foster the highest standards down to under 400. The Division is taxpaying citizen know what the of journalistic skill and integrity emperor is really wearing, and may- among members, promote the wise expected to operate at its Gold Medal use of natural resources, defend the level with half the employees and an be untangle a mixed metaphor or environment against abuse, recognize increased list of responsibilities. With two while we’re at it. The citizenry the media as a public trust and dedi- the virtual demolition of the Division might not like what it hears (like the cate ourselves to truth and conserva- of Natural Areas and Preserves, man- park visitor who was upset with the tion without regard for personal agement of the finest remaining pieces conditions he found and told the gain. of our natural heritage has fallen to the manager “they” should give him State Parks. One has to ask how a Di- more money to operate the park, PRESIDENT- Tim Snyder vision that is having trouble keeping although he didn’t want to pay more up with their own mandated response- taxes to make that happen), but that VICE PRESIDENT - Robert Loewendick bilities can possibly take on more. does not absolve us of the responsi- bility to tell them or the necessity of SECRETARY-TREASURER - Guy Denny It is the mantra “Doing more with their hearing it. less” carried to the absurd extreme of BOARD OF TRESTEES It’s a crusade, ladies and gentlemen. Jeff Huxmann (2012) “Doing everything with nothing”—a Start your engines. Fred Snyder (2012) situation only politicians and account- Mike Mainhart (2012) ants can get excited about. Jamey Graham (2013) John Hageman (2013) Brenda Layman (2013) Scott Carpenter (2014) Directory Updates Athens County Convention & Visitors Bureau Contact, Jenna Dill, Marketing Director, Email [email protected] Paige Alost, Executive Director. Email [email protected] Steve Pollick’s correct home phone number 419-334-3716,. See New Member section on page 8 for additional directory up dates. www.outdoorwritersofohio.org www.facebook.com/OutdoorWritersofOhio Dorothy Woodridge Scholarship Editor of Lore, - Beverly Frischkorn [email protected] Dustin Hall of Ohio State University received the $1000 scholarship award- ed by the Spice of OWO at the 2012 Conference in Wilmington. Dustin re- cently was also selected as the Sustainability Educator Graduate Assistant at Slippery Rock. 3 OUTDOOR LORE MEET THE BOARD Jeff Huxmann 2012 You’ll need to excuse his Wiscon- often enough. If OWO and it’s sin accent and crazy ideas. Jeff members help remind everyone to Huxmann was born into the state get outside and reconnect with na- of cheese and beer, and hasn’t ture, whether that is hunting, fish- quite come to grips with idea that ing, birding, boating, canoeing, or stream right-of-ways don’t go up just getting out in your own back- to the high water mark. To help yard, this is a valuable public ser- him cope, the OWO board invited vice. I grew up learning about Wis- Jeff to join as its newest board consin natives Aldo Leopold, Sig- member - sort of a way to help him urd Olsen, and John Muir. These vent to a receptive audience. What writers have had an important im- else were we supposed to do? pact on shaping the attitudes of Jeff has written, directed, filmed people toward our natural world and edited many nature-related for generations after their deaths. films, most notably about the fasci- Written words leave a legacy, and nating work of Operation Migra- of his time. He’s married to that can’t be undervalued. Whether tion. This group trains Whooping you’re ‘boe-ten’ Lake Superior or Cranes to follow airplanes, and native Ohioan Jessica Hux- mann, and has A 19-month ‘boating’ the Ohio River, both are then takes them on migration. His rejuvenating to the human spirit. work aired on National Geograph- -old climber named Will. Jeff is President of the Ad- Through OWO, I’m honored to be ic, CBS, and Animal Planet, a small part of relaying to others, among others. Jeff has also helped ams County Travel and Visitors Bureau, and serves and perhaps future generations, the fellow OWO member D’Arcy enjoyment of being outdoors in my Egan by filming several episodes on other local boards. “I think most of us would beautiful new home state. Go of “Outdoors Ohio.” Packers.....” Beyond video production, Jeff is a say we don’t get outside web designer, which occupies most Companies Announce OWO Member Special Offers Columbia is providing a wholesale discount Tamron is offering an exclusive $25 Rebate includ- program to eligible outdoor professionals. Please ing a Tamron Domke (camera bag) Bag for Outdoor look for the “Pro Purchase” link on our homepage Writers of Ohio with a purchase of the 18-270mm lens www.columbia.com or follow this link; from a Tamron USA authorized retailer. Email webmas- [email protected] for the rebate form. http://www.columbia.com/on/demandware.store/Sit es-Columbia_US-Site/default/ProPurchase-Start Tamron’s website indicates that there is currently a Only members who are actively working in an out- $100 rebate offered on the same lens. The retailer will door field qualify. Please read the conditions. The have this rebate form. contact at Columbia is Jinn Brunk, Corporate Rela- tions , Columbia Sportswear Company Both rebates are good through June 30, 2012. 14375 NW Science Park Drive Portland OR 97229 4 OUTDOOR LORE Robert Loewendick Pens Two New Books By Mike Mainhart Bob received word from the pub- OWO Vice President, Rob Lowend- While writing his third book ,Bob had lisher in November that his first ick has just finished his latest book, an idea to write a trail series on hik- book, Deer Hunting in Ohio, Histo- Best Tent Camping: Ohio. ing in Ohio. Menasha Ridge Press accepted his query and thus the foun- ry, Legends and Trophies, was made Bob successfully proposed a tent dation for Five Star Trails: Ohio was available in E-book format. The camping book in Ohio to Susan laid.
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