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DCNR's Terry Brady Honored By National Outdoor Writers
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Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Deputy Press Secretary Terry Brady was honored recently for conservation and communication achievement at the close of the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s annual conference in Rochester, Minn.
Brady received OWAA’s top conservation honor, the The Jade of Chiefs Award, representing “an affirmation of OWAA adherence to and support of the principles of conservation.” The OWAA has honored 45 conservation communicators since the award’s inception.
“The Jade of Chiefs award was created in 1958 as a way of recognizing outstanding service to conservation combined with excellence in outdoor writing,” said presenter Jim Low, a Missouri outdoors writer and the award’s 2009 recipient. “At the time, it was the highest honor a conservation writer could receive, and it remains one of the nation’s most coveted conservation awards.”
Brady of Zieglerville has been an active member of OWAA since 1986. Before becoming deputy press secretary with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in 1999, he spent 26 years working for daily newspapers and writing outdoors columns.
“The list of Jade of Chiefs recipients preceding me truly is daunting, and any perceived achievements of mine pale in comparison to theirs,” Brady told an audience of several hundred on June 13. “In my writing and other work, there’s always been the imprint of an auto factory-worker dad who never could show his four children too much of his outdoors. Coming just days before Father’s Day, this honor is testament to that man’s teaching.”
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7/12/2010 |
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