David Carlson
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Inductee 2025
For over 30 years, Dave Carlson’s broadcast reporting on outdoor sporting and resource topics, especially in the Midwest, informed outdoors
enthusiasts and the public on a remarkably wide range of subjects. He is known across the region as a straight-shooting reporter, one who never shied away from controversial topics, and a passionate outdoors enthusiast who strove to put his viewers into the stream or woods or onto the ice with him. He produced over 3,000 segments for his outdoor television shows, “Northland Adventures” and “Northland Outdoor Journal”, and received dozens of awards from his peers for notable segments. Along the way, his segments included coverage of injured vets and kids on the water, women who love to hunt and fish and are teaching others to do so, threats to natural resources, and controversies such as frac sand mining, high capacity wells and groundwater, and the confrontations at boat landings over Native Americans’ exercising their treaty rights to spear walleyes. He covered all of us who love our woods and waters, and in a way spoke for us in telling our stories.
RESOURCES:
Northland Adventures Examples (video)
Wisconsin Broadcasting Museum Hall-of-Fame, 2013, Dave Carlson
End of the Adventure – Dave retires. Volume One article, 2013
Dave Carlson inducted into the National Fishing Hall of Fame, 2016