Career
He began his outdoor writing career in 1995 with a story published in American Bowhunter. In 1996, The Bend Bulletin newspaper began to publish his column. His first book, Sun Publishing’s Hunting Oregon, was published in 1999.
In 2009, Lewis, in cooperation with producer Brad Douglas, began a television show called Gary Lewis’s High Desert Outdoorsman, which aired on affiliate stations in Oregon, northern California, Idaho, Alaska and Wyoming.
In 2010, Lewis re-branded his television Show to Gary Lewis’s Adventure Journal which is currently under production (January 2010). Lewis has written, or contributed to, 12 books
He has hosted three DVDs. Lewis has hunted and fished in six countries and across the United States.
An international hunter, one of his favorite destinations is Africa.
Here is a quote from a story he wrote for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network: "As the sun rose, the ground sparkled with golden mica and quartz. Dry river canyons cut through the hills, and game trails led in and out of the brush. Unlike the Kalahari, which I had glimpsed from the airplane, here the vegetation was thick.
Almost every bush and tree had thorns.
"In the early light, gemsbok, hartebeest and kudu were easily spotted by the reflection of sunlight on horn. We stopped to glass on top of one hill, and a troop of baboons took off running along the road below us."
He is a past President of the Northwest Outdoor Writers Association (NOWA).
Lewis is a columnist for The Bend Bulletin, a Contributing Editor for Successful Hunter magazine and a humor columnist for Bear Hunting magazine and a regular contributor for many other magazines and newspapers. Lewis, through his association with other outdoor writers, met long-time writer Editor Park, a frequent contributor to Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, Sports Afield and other publications.
Lewis and Park were good friends from 1999 through 2008, when Editor Park died.
