Tim Atwood
October 29,1947-

Conservation, Environment, Hunting

Tim Atwood has dedicated much of his life to the sportsman conservation movement. A political expert and former environmental manager, Tim is the National Field Archery Associations Bowhunting and Conservation Chairman. In the 1990's he was elected to serve as a board member of the United States Conservation Alliance, a group that is dedicated to protecting the heritage of the American Sportsman to hunt to fish, and to trap, and to protect scientific wildlife management practices.

Tim served in the Naval Shipbuilding field from 1967 to 1997 as a department of Defense Environmental Manager, Production General Foreman and Radar Transmission Line Supervisor. During his employment with the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Tim had the responsibility for coordinating the micro-wave production to support the many facets of major programs with Raytheon, H.N.L. Penn Engineering, 3 dbm Microwave Company and the United states Department of Defense. These programs included the AGEIS Spy I Radar system and NATO Sea Sparrow system, Tomahawk missile system and many more complex systems.

For more than thirty years Tim has been involved in archery and wildlife conservation. He formerly served on the United Conservation Alliance, Bowhunter Defense Coalition, American Archery Council, Protect What's Right Program, and many others in order to represent archers and sportsmen's interest in the Congress, the Courts, and in the State Legislatures.

Tim's interest in archery began when he was eight years old when he was introduced to some famous relatives - Pearl Black and Cap Gregory who were early trick shot artists with a gun and bow shooting vaudeville act. Tim bagged his first game just a few months after he was presented with his first bow and has been a bowhunter for 43 years with several animals in the record book. He was named Bowhunter of the Year by Riverside Archers in 1984, became a member of the Golden Eagle Society for taking over 35 species of small game, and has earned the CBH-SAA Big Carp award. In 1986 Tim won the CBH-SAA Broadhead Championship. He has served as President of Inland Archery Association and Riverside Archers. Tim has also been a member of Desert Center Archers and Mojave Archers.

Currently Tim is writing a monthly column for ARCHERY magazine and has had articles published in WESTERN BOWHUNTER, HUNTING AND FISHING NEWS, WISCONSIN BOWHUNTERS, BOWHUNTERS NEWS, the MISSOURI BOWHUNTER, AUSTRALIA BOWHUNTER, and THE QUIVER. He will soon complete a book about his famous Aunt Pearl and Uncle Cap.

Tim Atwood-conservationist, bowhunter, environmentalist, author.

Inducted 2000