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2008 OWC COMMUNICATIONS AWARDS WINNERS
This annual competition recognizes and rewards excellence in outdoor communication and promotes craft improvement. It is open to all members of the Outdoor Writers of Canada "in good standing".
In each category the winner of the 2008 Outdoor Communication Award is listed first followed by 2 Award of Merit winners.
The awards are presented annually at the Awards Banquet during the Outdoor Writers of Canada's annual conference.
NEWSPAPER COLUMN
1st Robert Scammell
Title: The Courts Have it All Wrong
Publication: The Red Deer Advocate
2nd Robert Scammell
Title: Deer Holocaust Can’t Work
Publication: The Red Deer Advocate
3rd Ken Bailey
Title: The Bear Necessities
Publication: Grain News
MAGAZINE COLUMN
1st Gord Ellis
Title: Trout in Turmoil
Publication: Ontario Out of Doors
2nd Don Meredith
Title: No Child Inside
Publication: Alberta Outdoorsmen
3rd Gord Pyzer
Title: The Japanese Invasion
Publication: Outdoor Canada
NEWSPAPER FEATURE
1st John Kaplanis
Title: Tracking the Wolf
Publication: Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
2nd John Kaplanis
Title: Bears at Eye Level
Publication: Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
3rd Gord Ellis
Title: On The Trail of Wild Mushrooms
Publication: Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
MAGAZINE FEATURE “OTHER”
1st James Smedley
Title: Wabakimi Experience: Closing a Family Paddling Chapter
Publication: Kanawa Magazine
2nd Duane Radford
Title: Andy Russell: Canada’s Conservation Icon
Publication: Outdoor Edge Magazine
3rd James Smedley
Title: Honing Skills and Hooking Steelhead
Publication: Lake Superior Angler
MAGAZINE FEATURE FISHING
1st Ken Bailey
Title: Confessions of a George River Junkie
Publication: Outdoor Canada Magazine
2nd James Smedley
Title: Don’t Blame the Walleye
Publication: Ontario Out of Doors
3rd Bob Sexton
Title: Making History in Mexico
Publication: Outdoor Canada
MAGAZINE FEATURE HUNTING
1st T.J. Schwanky
Title: Quite a First Day
Publication: Western Sportsman
2nd Al Voth
Title: Coyote School: Missed Shots are OK
Publication: The Varmint Hunter Magazine
3rd Jeff Helsdon
Title: A Sneaky Approach
Publication: Ontario Out of Doors
PHOTOGRAPHY
1st James Smedley
Title: Winter Walleye
Publication: Ontario Out of Doors
2nd TJ Schwanky
Title: Bugles in the High Country
Publication: Sports Scene
3rd James Smedley
Title: Smiling Walleye Boy
Publication: Canadian Sportsfishing Industry Association
DUCKS UNLIMITED WETLANDS APPRECIATION
1st T.J. Schwanky
Title: Wetland Safari
Publication: Alberta Outdoorsmen
2nd Don MacLean
Title: Wetlands and Trout
Publication: Cape Breton Post
3rd Ron Montgomery
Title: DUC Committed to Science and Education
Publication: MacLeod Gazette
THE BROCK MACRITCHIE AWARD
1st Don Meredith
Title: No Child Inside
Publication: Alberta Outdoorsmen
2nd Gord Ellis
Title: A Great Day Afield
Publication: Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
3rd James Smedley
Title: Family Fishing at Lodge 88/The Family That Fishes Together…
Publication: The Sault Star
BOOKS
1st Betty Pratt-Johnson
Title: 151 Dives in the Protected Waters of British Columbia and Washington State
Publisher: Betty Pratt-Johnson/Adventure Publishing
2nd Len Rich
Title: Memoirs of a Fly Fisher
Publisher: Jesperson Publishing
3rd Dennis Reid
Title: Maximum Salmon
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
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