Connected to the outdoors and readers: South Dakota outdoors columnist Roger Wiltz dead at 80 – Mitchell Republic
MITCHELL — Roger Wiltz, a prolongedtime outdoorss author in South Dakota and contrihoweveror to the Mitchell Republic, has died after a battle with mind and stayr most cancers.
Wiltz, of Wagner, died on Sept. 5. He was 80.
“Our readers have loved Roger Wiltz’s column for actually ma…….
MITCHELL — Roger Wiltz, a prolongedtime outdoorss author in South Dakota and contrihoweveror to the Mitchell Republic, has died after a battle with mind and stayr most cancers.
Wiltz, of Wagner, died on Sept. 5. He was 80.
“Our readers have loved Roger Wiltz’s column for actually many yrs, and he undoubtedly made our newspaper greater Collectively with his work,” Mitchell Republic Editor Luke Hagen said. “His writing had a deep Reference to People who love The outdoors by way of his tales, opinions and reminiscences. We’re fortunate that Roger’s phrases will stay on eternally in our newspaper’s historic previous.”
Earlier this yr, Wiltz wrote about how a lot he appreciated having A private relationship with native residents by way of his column, getting feedagain and ideas from his devoted readership. He famous in a March 2022 column that he’s relished my adventures from Africa to New Zealand, however “I’ve loved my South Dakota hunts simply as a lot.” A pair of of these particular South Dakota adventures included hunts after school all by way of his days as a teacher And school administrator, or meeting up with former scholars or beloved pals for day journeys or prolonged adventures searching and fishing.
Outside columnist Roger Wiltz, left, and searching companion Mike Hall pose with an elk all by way of a 2018 searching journey in Wyoming.
Submitted photograph
“For the previous 60 yrs, I even have been a passionate South Dakota hunter. I’ven’t missed a pheasant or deer season, and for extra seasons than not, I’ve had a duck stamp on my searching license,” he wrote for the Mitchell Republic’s 2019 searching season preview.
A local of Chicago, Wiltz moved to South Dakota in 1960 to …….
