Outdoor Industry Accomplishments

A. Robert Sheppard, M.D.

I. Appointments, Positions and Credentials

• Contributing Editor, Alabama Sportsman magazine, 1979 to 1982
• Monthly outdoor columnist, guns & hunting equipment (The Game Bag), Alabama Sportsman magazine, 1979 to 1982
• At large outdoor magazine writer 1977 to present (Alabama Sportsman, Alabama Game & Fish, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Harris Publications, Aquafield Publications, Bowhunter Magazine, Southern Outdoors, Game & Fish Publications, Inc. and others)
• Active Member Outdoor Writers Association of America 1982-1986
• Member South Eastern Outdoor Press Association 1981 to 1993
• Medical Director, South Eastern Outdoor Press Association 1981-1986
• Founder, President, and CEO, Progressive Medical Education, A non-profit corporation sponsoring medical education seminars for physicians, dentists, pharmacists and other health professionals with access to an outdoor environment.
• Instructor Bear Archery Bow Hunting School, Westervelt Lodge, 1979-1986
• Instructor Westervelt Bow Hunting School, Westervelt Lodge, 1979 to present
• Instructor Browning Archery Bow Hunting School, Bent Creek Lodge, 1989-1991
• Instructor Bent Creek Bow Hunting School, Bent Creek Lodge, 1985 to present
• Instructor University of Alabama Bow Hunting School, Ann Jordan Farms, 1985
• Instructor CVA Black Powder Hunting School, White Oak Plantation, 1990-1993
• Member at Large, Board of Directors, Alabama Wildlife Federation, 1984 to 1989
• Member, Professional Hunter Team, Creative Concepts, Inc., outdoor industry consulting firm, June 1990 to present.
• Served as outdoor industry products consultant with multiple firms including Browning Arms, Inc., Browning Archery, Inc., Browning Clothing, Inc., Connecticut Valley Arms, Inc., Nikon Sports Optics, Inc., Whitetail Institute of North America, Warren & Sweat, Inc., and Wellington Leisure Products, Inc., High Country, Inc., 1990 to 1997
• Hunter Safety Instructor Certification, State of Alabama, Game & Fish Division, Department of Natural Resources, Montgomery, Alabama. Completed 8/22/91, Bent Creek Lodge, Butler, Alabama, James Thornhill, Co-ordinator
• Hunting in several Southern states, has taken more than 150 whitetails with bow and arrow and more than 500 whitetails with rifle and black powder arms
• I developed the software program utilized by Bent Creek Lodge, Inc., one of the South's largest (45,000 acres) commercial hunting and fishing operations, to manage their deer herd, fisheries, and land holdings.
• Developed a biological technique for separating largemouth bass females from males for the purpose of stocking one sex only lakes (2002).
• I developed the church management software program utilized by the PCA Presbyterian church, First Presbyterian Church of Aliceville, Aliceville, AL..

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