California’s Best Outdoor Internet Site

OWAC 2020 EIC 1st Place, Best Outdoor Feature Photo, Red Lake Creek Cabin (10/8/19) John Poimiroo

CaliforniaFallColor.com has been named California’s Best Outdoor Internet Site for 2020.

The honor (presented by the Outdoor Writers Association of California resulting from its annual Excellence in Craft Media Communications Competition) was given to this site by a panel of nationally recognized, award-winning, outdoor media professionals who selected entries on the basis of “the highest level of professionalism and talented execution.”

OWAC 2020 EIC Best Outdoor Video

In addition to being named Best Outdoor Internet Site, Editor John Poimiroo was selected as OWAC Outdoor Writer of the Year, and received first place honors for Best Outdoor Feature Photograph (Red Lake Creek Cabin), Best Outdoor Video and Best Photographic Series (CFC photojournalist Philip Reedy placed second in this category with photos published on CFC); placed second in the John Reginato Conservation Award for his San Francisco Chronicle article, “Why Wildfires Pose an Existential Threat to California Tourism;” and received two third place awards for Best Outdoor Action Photograph (Snow Geese) and Best OWAC Conference-related Entry (Siskiyou Sonata, shared with Philip Reedy).

OWAC 2020 EIC 3rd Place, Best Action Photo, Snow Geese, Colusa NWR (11/23/19) John Poimiroo