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Mark Taylor

Former Roanoke Times outdoors columnist Bill Cochran salutes Mark Taylor, our current outdoors columnist and “Wild Life” blogger, for recently being named president of the Outdoors Writers Association of America.

Cochran recounts the story of Mark’s hiring in 1998 and writes: “He turned out to be an excellent choice for the Roanoke Times, advancing the newspaper’s outdoor coverage into the new world of blogging. His efforts to promote the outdoor writing craft across the nation earned him the prestigious position of president of OWAA at the Fairbanks conference. He is the first Virginian to hold that position.”