InterMedia Outdoors Vice President and Group Publisher Mike Carney announced today that Danny Farris has been named the Associate Publisher of Petersen’s Bowhunting.

As Associate Publisher, Farris will be responsible for all advertising sales management including print, radio, internet and events. In addition, Farris will assist in the operational management of Petersen’s Bowhunting multi-media platform.

An experienced bowhunter and guide, Farris has worked in the archery industry the past five years for both trade and consumer titles, compiling an excellent track record of strong sales success and excellent customer relations.

“We are very pleased to have someone with Danny’s talents join the InterMedia Outdoors Team,” stated Carney. “Danny’s experience, determination and understanding of the bowhunting market will be a great asset in expanding the reach and influence of the Petersen’s Bowhunting growing multi-media brand. With an eye to the future, he’ll strive to maintain Bowhunting’s dominant role as the unquestioned equipment and technique authority.”

Farris can be reached at 5195 Fontaine Blvd, Suite 5, Fountain, CO 80817, Danny.Farris@IMoutdoors.com, (719) 393-9781.

About InterMedia Outdoors:

Reaching the most avid outdoors enthusiasts across all media, InterMedia Outdoors, Inc. is recognized for the strongest brands in the industry, including Guns & Ammo, In-Fisherman, Petersen’s Hunting, Fly Fisherman, Game & Fish and 12 other leading magazines, 23 associated and complementary websites, including the BassFan network, 13 popular television shows, 19 consumer events and a National television network, The Sportsman Channel. Among other media properties, InterMedia Outdoors, Inc. is a portfolio component of InterMedia Partners VII, L.P., a private equity firm focused exclusively on the media industry.

NSSF has appointed vice president of operations Nancy Coburn to a new position as vice president and chief financial officer. Coburn, who has overseen tremendous growth in organizational finances in recent years, began her career with NSSF in 1990.
In her new position, Coburn will assume greater responsibility for all budget revenues and expenses surrounding NSSF programs, communications, legal affairs, administration and SHOT Show. She also will oversee finances for NSSF subsidiaries the National Association of Shooting Ranges and National Association of Firearms Retailers and NSSF-affiliates the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute and Wildlife Management Institute.

NSSF has named Randy Clark as its new director of retail partnerships. In his new position, Clark will oversee NSSF’s retail division, the National Association of Firearms Retailers , and work with NAFR- and NSSF-member firearms retailers nationwide. He will also work closely with a growing list of NAFR-affiliated state organizations, which provide retailers with leadership and guidance at state levels.
Clark brings to NSSF more than 20 years experience in retail operations management. In addition to his firearms retail background, Clark has experience in game preserve and shooting range management, having managed facilities in Montana and Indiana.

The International Hunter Education Association, the official organization representing the interests of 69 state, provincial and federal hunter education coordinators, and 70,000 hunter education instructors who teach hunter safety, ethics and conservation, is seeking candidates for its executive vice president position.
The job entails directing the affairs of IHEA out of its Wellington, Colo. office.

President Bush will nominate H. Dale Hall for Director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to replace Matt Hogan, acting director of FWS, and former director Steve Williams, who stepped down earlier this year to become president of Wildlife Management Institute. Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior, made the announcement about Hall, a 27-year employee who started with FWS in 1978 conducting field work in wetland ecology in Mississippi and worked his way up to the Southwest Regional Director, a post he has held since 2001. The nomination is subject to confirmation by the Senate.

ALBANY — Assemblyman Marc Butler has been named to a new task force to develop ways to improve and promote the hunting and fishing industries in New York state.
State Assembly Republican leader Charles Nesbitt announced the formation of the task force, to be chaired by Assemblyman Will Barclay, this week.
The 18-member Assembly Republican Hunting and Fishing Task Force will host regional public forums to gather information from members of local hunting and fishing organizations, industry-related business owners, chambers of commerce representatives, local promotion and tourism officials and others about ways to improve the vitality of the outdoor sport industry, increase the number of recreational hunters and anglers, invest in land for outdoor recreation, enhance the state’s effort to manage game species and improve relations between outdoor sportsmen and sportswomen in communities where these activities occur. The task force’s first regional formum is scheduled for Tuesday, June 21, in Albany. Among the topics to be discussed is chronic wasting disease among New York’s deer herds.