Outdoor Life Honors Top 25 Most Influential...
Outdoor Life, launches "Outdoor Life 25," a new awards program to recognize the people changing the face of hunting and fishing, in its December/January 2008 issue. The magazine profiles the 25 leaders, innovators, conservationists and unsung heroes who have had a major positive impact on the outdoor sports.
Readers are encouraged to log onto www.OutdoorLife.com/OL25 to vote for the most deserving individual, who will be presented with the Readers' Choice Award. The December/January 2008 issue hit newsstands November 20.
"We started the Outdoor Life 25 because we wanted to recognize high-profile and grassroots individuals who have had the most positive impact on hunting and fishing," said Todd Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Outdoor Life.
The 25 honorees are grouped into four categories: leaders, who by their individual efforts and sheer strength of will have had a strong impact on the hunting and fishing scene; innovators, whose product breakthroughs make time spent in the outdoors more productive and enjoyable; conservationists, who work to ensure that that future generations will be able to enjoy the outdoors; and unsung heroes, who in quiet but important ways are doing things great for the outdoor sports.
The magazine will honor the inaugural Outdoor Life 25 during a special reception presented by ECHO Incorporated at SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada in February 2008. Mr. Smith will also announce the winner of the Reader's Choice Award during the ceremony. To vote for the Reader's Choice Award or to nominate someone for next year's Outdoor Life 25, please visit www.OutdoorLife.com/OL25 .
OUTDOOR LIFE 25
LEADERS
* Gary Loomis
* Dick & Jim Cabela
* Jennie Richardson
* Ray Scott
* Larry Potterfield
* Marty Brunson
* Ted Nugent
* Ron Coburn
INNOVATORS
* Michael McGinley,
* Keith Jones & John Prochnow
* Dave Emary
* Albert Fiedler
* Doug Hannon
CONSERVATIONISTS
* Governor Mike Huckabee
* Senator Kent Conrad
* Grant Woods
* Dr. James Earl Kennamer
* Rick Kaminski
UNSUNG HEROES
* Ray Howell
* Dick Sternberg
* Jack Smith
* Julie Kay Smithson
* Stan Brandshaw
* Ernie Perkins
* Dick Blythe
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