Award winning journalist and photographer, Byers has nearly 1,000 magazine articles in print and over the last decade has focused on outdoor celebrities such as Larry Csonka, Gary Anderson, Karl Malone, Jim Kelly, and Rubin Brown, country singers Mark Chestnut, David Watson, Kevin Morgan, and the “Big Men” of country- Trace Adkins and Darryl Worley, not to mention introspective interviews with best friends of Dale Earnhardt and slugger Ted Williams.

Other features made a splash with NHL Hockey standout Pat Verbeek, two-time Classic Champ Kevin VanDam and stringer of Bassmaster stars like TV host Shaw Grigsby, Gerald Swindle, Jimmy Mize, Jay Yelas, and Marty Stone. The Jeff Burton Invitational fishing contest in Orlando matched fishermen with up-and-coming drivers such as Kurt Busch, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards, Hank Parker Jr. and Jeff Green, names that are household words in NASCAR circles.

National awards highlighted text and photography, yet the crowning jewel was “A Miner Miracle” a chance to celebrate the rescue of Randy Fogle and his buddies from certain death in the Cue Creek Mine. Joe is also one of America’s premier Bowhunters