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THE GUYS (AND GAL) IN THE FIELD...
Much of the success of
the Alberta Outdoorsmen
comes from our talented
outdoor writers. Each of
our writers lives and
works in Alberta so
their knowledge of this
province and its outdoor
resources is first-hand.
Following is a short
biography on each of our
regular columnists. |
Father and Daughter Team
Together
Robert J. (Bob) Adams /
Kelly Hymanyk
Bob was born in Turner
Valley and grew up on a
Stump Farm near Edson.
As a youngster, Bob
spent every possible
minute in the outdoors,
hunting, fishing or
trapping. His boyhood
passion for the outdoors
has never diminished,
and after a brief stint
with both Forestry and
the RCMP, he began a
career as a Fish and
Wildlife officer. As a
district officer, he
served in Brooks,
Strathmore, Hinton,
Calgary and briefly in
Peace River. In 1980 he
was appointed to the
position of Director of
Enforcement for the
Division, a position he
held until his
retirement in 1993.
During this period Bob
was very active in law
enforcement
internationally and was
the president of: The
Association of Midwest
Fish and Game Law
Enforcement Officers;
The Northwestern
Association of Fish and
Wildlife Officers; The
Chairman of The Law
Enforcement Technical
Committee of the Western
Association of Fish and
Wildlife Agencies, and
for his work as acting
chair of the Western
Association itself, was
awarded an honorary
lifetime membership.
Bob began writing
humorous, non-fiction
short stories in his
retirement years. To
date, he has written
eight books: The Stump
Farm; Beyond The Stump
Farm; Horse Cop; Fish
Cop; The Elephant's
Trunk; The South Road;
Skunks & Hound Dogs; and
In The Shadow Of The
Rockies. His books, all
national best sellers,
are very popular with
readers of all ages and
from all walks of life.
Bob lives in Edmonton
with his wife Martha
where he continues to
pursue his love for the
outdoors and work on his
writing.
Kelly, an award winning
writer and director, was
born in Calgary where
she spent most of her
adolescence.
After graduating from
high school she attended
both the University of
Alberta and the
University of Calgary
and graduated with a
Bachelor of Education.
She embarked on a career
teaching English and
Drama that took her from
Fort McMurray to Stony
Plain. Her creativity
and high energy led to
numerous awards at the
zone and provincial
levels.
In 1999 Kelly left the
teaching profession and
undertook the
challenging and
demanding roles of
publisher and
editor-in-chief at
Megamy Publishing Ltd.
where she works with her
father on his national
best selling books -
true stories from the
great outdoors. Kelly
lives in Edmonton with
her husband Bill and her
two daughters, Megan and
Amy, where she continues
to oversee the daily
running of Megamy
Publishing. |
Brian
Bildson
Brian
Bildson has
spent his
entire life
exploring
Canada's
wilderness.
He was
raised in
the
Northwest
Territories
where
hunting,
fishing and
trapping
were a
natural part
of his life.
After moving to Alberta in the 80's, Brian began trapping along the Kakwa
River and
can now be
found
running his
trapline in
the Willmore
Wilderness
Park.
When not trapping Brian can be found at his back country lodge on the
edge of the
Willmore.
Visit
www.sheepcreek.net
for a look
at this
beautiful
piece of
Alberta. |
Brad
Fenson
 Brad
Fenson
is an
avid
outdoorsman
who
enjoys
hunting,
fishing
and
unique
adventures.
His
passion
for the
outdoors
pushes
him into
the
field
for
approximately
100 days
or more
each
year. He
has
traveled
across
North
America
hunting
and
fishing
along
the
trail
and
collecting
incredible
photographs
and
story
ideas
from
unique
locations.
Brad has
been
hunting
since he
was four
years
old,
when his
dad used
to take
him
along on
excursions
in
western
Canada.
Since
those
early
days his
love for
the
outdoors
has
grown
into new
challenges
to find
quality
outdoor
experiences.
Brad
likes to
hunt
with a
bow and
arrow,
muzzleloader,
shotgun
and
center-fire
rifle
for a
wide
variety
of
Alberta
game. He
pursues
his
passion
for
fishing
just as
hard as
hunting
and
holds a
special
place
for the
days
when he
can
include
his
family. |
Richard Mellon
 Backyard Ballistics columnist Richard Mellon has lived and hunted in northwestern Alberta his entire life. The outdoors, hunting and fishing were a natural part of growing up in the north and the meat killed was an integral part of feeding the family.
Married to Sandi, his number 1 hunting buddy, the two have raised 3 kids in the outdoors tradition and are now empty-nesters.
In May 2001, Rich joined ranks with well-known outdoor writer TJ Schwanky and the two started producing The Outdoor Quest TV series. The show focuses on hunting across North America with a strong slant on adventure and how-to information. Rich has always been an avid hunter and serious shooter, the advent of the TV show brought muzzleloaders into his life - a new area of the shooting sports. Rich was promptly gripped by the new sport and has become immersed in the long range/high performance niche, already taking a whitetail buck at over 220 yards.
Now Richard and TJ are working on a multi title DVD project that will include sheep, elk, deer, moose and caribou titles.
Richard respects all forms of hunting but admits that his eyes really light up when something goes boom and the smell of gunpowder is in the air.
Mellon is a charter member of the Professional Outdoors Media Association.
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Don Meredith
 Born in Los Angeles, California, Don Meredith was soon dragged northward by the “call of the wild”. He eventually ended up in Alberta in 1970 where he finished his studies in wildlife biology, worked for a while as a consulting biologist and finally settled down as a writer, biologist and communications consultant. He spent 13 years with the Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division as its Coordinator of Information and Education. Don writes the column, “Rubs, Scrapes and Tangle, signs along the way” for the Outdoorsmen. He has won several awards for his writing, including two first places in the 2000 Outdoor Writers of Canada National Communications Awards for articles that appeared in the Outdoorsmen — best magazine column, and best magazine feature article on hunting.
As a consulting biologist, Don worked on various projects for both private industry and government in the High Arctic, northern Alberta and the Rocky Mountains. He drew upon his experiences in the North to write his first young-adult, adventure novel, Dog Runner (© 1989, 2004). The novel won the 1990 Writers Guild of Alberta Award of Excellence for Children’s Literature, and has also been published in Dutch and German.
His second novel, The Search for Grizzly One (© 2005), is a story about a teenager searching for his grandfather lost in a bush airplane over northern Alberta.
Visit Don’s website (www.donmeredith.ca) |
Ron Montgomery
 Ron Montgomery is a freelance writer and consultant currently residing in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwestern Alberta, Canada.
Originally from a farming background near the town of Wapella in southeastern Saskatchewan, Ron and Vi with their two boys lived in Lethbridge, Alberta for over twenty-years.
In early 1998, Ron elected to leave his fifteen-year Lethbridge-based position with Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and move to the Crowsnest Pass to pursue self-employed freelance writing and public relations consulting. Writing and other assignments from various organizations including DUC and the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), ongoing “slice-of-life” column writing for newspapers in the three Prairie-provinces and book publication offers a busy, but enjoyable lifestyle. Over 300 articles have been published to date in newspapers and magazines, plus 4 self-published books are currently on the market in major chain and independent bookstores in the 4 western provinces.
Visit Ron's website (www.ronmontgomery.ca)
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Claudio Ongaro
 Claudio Ongaro, the Seasonal Targets Columnist, started his working career as a schoolteacher in 1988, at the age of 22, after graduating from the University of Alberta. He taught full time for six years and part time for six years while building his outfitting business. Currently, he outfits fulltime for waterfowl from the Ongaro Lodge in the world famous prairie pothole region in central Eastern Alberta and outfits for trophy whitetails and mule deer in Alberta's remote Western foothills. Claudio has been published in several outdoor publications since 1989. Feature articles have focused primarily on his areas of expertise, which include hunting for Whitetail and Mule deer, angling for Walleye, and hunting for waterfowl. Claudio's personal hunting has taken him from the wind swept cactus strewn prairies to the muddiest muskeg bogs of the lowlands and as high as the snow covered peaks of the Rocky Mountains. His latest venture, Northern Giants Outdoors Video Collection, produces hunting and fishing related DVD titles where pursuit of trophy animals is the main focus. Claudio and, wife, Linda have enjoyed a wonderful married life together since 1990. In March of 2005, their daughter Aspen was born and in June of 2006 another
daughter, Sierra, graced their home.
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Duane Radford
 Duane was born in Blairmore, in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwestern Alberta. He grew up in nearby Bellevue where he started hunting and fishing in a sportsman's paradise at an early age. He took his grade school in various towns in the Crowsnest Pass and finished high school in Calgary. Duane attended the University of Calgary and the University of Manitoba where he completed his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in zoology and biology. He has been certified as a Fisheries Scientist by the American Fisheries Society. He worked as a Regional Fisheries Biologist, Regional Director and Fisheries Director for the Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division. He is a recipient of the Order of the Bighorn Award - Alberta's highest award for fish and wildlife conservation. He currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta where he works as a free lance writer and photographer where he writes for various periodicals in both Canada and the United States. He is a member of the Outdoor Writers of Canada, Lone Pine Photo (a quality stock photo agency in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), the Alberta Fish and Game Association, Edmonton Trout Fishing Club and Trout Unlimited Canada. He is a Director of the Edmonton Trout Fishing Club, and an Honourary Life Member of the Great Plains Fishery Workers Association. Duane is also a field editor for the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, for the Canadian Fly Fisher magazine. He is a regular columnist in the Alberta Outdoorsmen magazine: Fish(ing) Lines and Fish and Wild Game Recipes, from the field to the table. |
Duane Rosenkranz
 Duane was born in Calgary, now lives in Edmonton and has lived in Alberta all his life. His day job is in the tire industry and much of his spare time is spent in the bush or on a lake with camera and/or gun in hand. He hunts most everything but especially enjoys November deer hunting. Interested in nature and photography as long has he can remember, he has combined the two into a hobby and sideline as a nature photographer.
Over the last 15 years Duanes images have been used throughout Canada and the US in Outdoor, Nature, Train and Farming magazines. His photos have also been used in calendars, brochures, websites etc. Duane also sells canvas and paper prints of his favorite images and is represented by Quebec Stock Images stock agency. www.drosenkranzphotography.com |
Bob Scammell
 Bob Scammell, a born and raised Albertan, has been fishing and hunting here and elsewhere for more than 50 years and writing about it since 1966 in a weekly outdoors column that continues to appear in various Alberta newspapers. He has freelanced to many of North America's major outdoors magazines.
For 37 years, until 1998, Scammell practiced law in Red Deer, Alberta. In the early '70's he served two terms as president of the Alberta Fish and Game Association, the province's largest association of anglers and hunters. In 1976 the AFGA awarded Scammell the Fulton Trophy, its highest award, and early in 2000 the Alberta government inducted him into the Order of Bighorn, its highest honour to a conservationist. The Canadian Wildlife Federation also honored Scammell with its Roderick Haig-Brown Award in Winnipeg in June 2005.
In 1987 Scammell "fished for his country" in England as a member of Canada's first team in the World Fly Fishing Championship. His 1995 book, "The Phenological Fly", presents a natural method of predicting Alberta's major aquatic insect hatches.
Scammell's current book, "Good Old Guys, Alibis and Outright Lies", a collection of his outdoors humour writing, won the 1997 Book Award of the Outdoor Writers of Canada. His first book, "The Outside Story", a collection from the first ten years of his newspaper columns, won the OWC Book Award in 1983. |
TJ Schwanky
 Spike Camp Musings' Columnist, T.J. Schwanky is one of Canada's most prolific outdoor writers. Additionally, he is a regular seminar speaker at sportsmen's shows across North America and he is host of Thompson/Center's Outdoor Quest on the Men's Channel in the U.S.A. and Wild TV in Canada.
A self-confessed walleye addict, T.J. also admits to being a closet fly-fisherman and rates Alberta's Ram River as his favourite destination. He spends a great deal of his time in the high basins of the Rocky Mountains in search of bighorn sheep and is the holder of several Longhunter Society Records for big game harvested with a muzzleloader. There is no place he'd rather spend his days than in Alberta's great outdoors.
Visit www.theoutdoorquest.com Official Website. |
J.B. Struthers
 J.B. Struthers is retired in Edmonton. He carried a game warden's badge from August of 1964 to May of 1997. During those years he was stationed in Athabasca, Whitecourt, Edson, Evansburg, Calgary, Edmonton, St. Paul, Edmonton and Red Deer before doing a third and final stint in Edmonton as Chief of Enforcement - Field Services. Much of his second sojourn in capital city was spent redrafting Alberta's wildlife and fisheries legislation.
He writes regularly for Alberta Outdoorsmen and a quarterly publication. His short fiction appears sporadically in various publications in Canada and the U.S.A. |
Neil Waugh
 Neil Waugh brings over 25 years of political and outdoors writing to Alberta Outdoorsmen. As well as being the Edmonton Sun’s provincial affairs columnist for over a decade he also contributes his weekly Out There column to the publication.
His Covers and Riffles column brings an outdoors perspective to the political activities under the Dome.
Neil was literally born with a flyrod in his hands and raised in the West Country both on the Coal Branch and later Drayton Valley. He received his education at the University of Alberta.
A recipient of several Outdoor Writers of Canada communications awards both for writing and photography, Neil has a passion for Alberta’s lakes, rivers and wild places.
When not covering the legislature, Neil can usually be found up a foothills trout stream or in ruffed grouse cover with his yellow Lab Ginger. |
Kevin Wilson
 Tips for the Outdoorsman Columnist, Kevin Wilson is an award-winning outdoor writer. An avid sportsman, Kevin lives the outdoor lifestyle as a professional outfitter and big game/bird game guide in Alberta (see venturenorthoutfitting.com).
With a passion for hunting bighorn sheep, trophy whitetails, and waterfowl, he’s taken several record-book specimens with bow-and-arrow. Although a committed bowhunter, Kevin enjoys all outdoor pursuits from fly-fishing to ice-fishing, freshwater and saltwater angling, as well as hunting with muzzleloader, shotgun and centerfire rifle. He’s fished and hunted across North America taking many different species from the exotic such as caribou, grizzly bear, and sheep to wild turkeys. |
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