March 26, 2008Breaking news: Keck out as NWTF bossI just learned that Rob Keck has stepped down as the CEO of the National Wild Turkey Federation. No one is saying anything official about why this happened, but it's probably not a coincidence that the resignation comes roughly a week after the NWTF board's ouster of chief operating officer Carl Brown and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Dick Rosenlieb. No official word for the dismissals has been givien, either, but Doug Howlett and Colin Moore of the Southern Sporting Journal report that sources have said the "the board had been investigating certain management practices at the Federation and that the board's actions were in response to their findings." As the former editor of the NWTF's Turkey Call magazine, Howlett obviously has many connections within the organization so I have confidence in his reporting. The whole article is posted on the Southern Sporting Journal's Web site. As I wrote about last year in a main story and sidebar on the challenges facing the Roanoke Valley chapter of the NWTF, the organization as a whole is struggling to evolve now that the mission for which it was founded -- restoration of the wild turkey -- has largely been accomplished. They still do plenty of great stuff, including habitat preservation and contributing to the important Families Afield recruitment and retention effort with the National Shooting Sportsmans Foundation and the U.S. Sportsmans Alliance. A challenge is keeping the sportsmen and women who are the lifeblood of NWTF invigorated now that the mission isn't so easily defined. I'll keep you posted as I learn more. And if you have information or thoughts on the topic, please drop me an e-mail or post a comment. |
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While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures. Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism. After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters. .....Advertisement.....
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