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 Doug Nielsen is an award-winning freelance writer and broadcaster who has spent his entire life living and playing in the Southwestern Outdoors. He enjoys hunting, fishing, camping and just about anything that involves the traditional outdoor sports — he considers them to be the original extreme sports.
If the weather cooperates, Doug’s favorite place to sleep is under the sky where he can look up at the stars until he can no longer keep his eyes open.
While Doug’s favorite hunts involve upland game, particularly pheasant and quail, he is equally at home in the pursuit of big game. And he has tried his hand at hunting with modern firearms, muzzleloaders and archery tackle. One day he hopes to hunt birds with a muzzleloading shotgun.Because his family’s roots are in the Rocky Mountains, until the past few years Doug has long equated fishing with feisty trout in all their varieties. That is changing, however, as he is becoming increasingly comfortable fly-fishing for bass. Doug caught his first bucket mouth quite by accident. He did so while trailing a black Woolly Bugger behind his float tube at Nevada’s Kirch Wildlife Management Area (Sunnyside). His most recent conquest? Small mouth bass in Virginia’s Maury River.
Doug is the recipient of the Nevada Wildlife Federation’s Outdoor Communicator of the Year Award (2005), and has been twice recognized with Excellence in Craft Awards by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He is an active member of the OWAA as well as the Professional Outdoor Media Association.
Doug’s earliest beginnings as an outdoor communicator came when he covered the outdoor beat for The Daily Universe at Brigham Young University in 1986. In 1993, he joining the Nevada Department of Wildlife where he wrote about hunting, fishing, boating and wildlife management while working in both the public information and law enforcement arenas until 2005. It was then that Doug took a brief hiatus to lay the foundations of his freelance writing career. He rejoined NDOW in 2006 as the Conservation Education Supervisor in the agency’s Southern Region. That region is comprised of the southern four counties, including Clark County, one of the fastest growing areas in the United States.
In 2004, Doug began writing “In the Outdoors,” his weekly column that appears Thursdays in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In addition, his written work has appeared in Rocky Mountain Game & Fish Magazine, The Range Report, Turkey Call, Women in the Outdoors, Las Vegas Sports & Recreation Magazine, and various NDOW publications and local Nevada newspapers.
The Takin’ it Outside radio show is a short-format show that Doug both scripts and produces. His goal is to one day have the show air on radio stations from the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains to Colorado’s Western Slope. Currently the show airs twice each day on KDSS 92.7 FM in the community of Ely, Nevada.
Recognizing that convenience is the name of the communications game, Doug believes that outdoor enthusiasts should have the opportunity to listen to outdoor programming when they want and where they want. Enter the Takin’ it Outside Audio Magazine — a podcast tailored just for lovers of outdoor things. |
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