Backpacker - Description: From the authors of "Leave No Trace" by The Mountaineers Press.
Guidelines: Query for features & dep’t. Gear features staff written. A feature needs a hook, passionate sense of place, unique individual finding new ways to improve/enjoy wilderness.
Destinations: 1st person of author's recent trip. Grasp location's character so reader will want to duplicate trip. No journal style articles.
Personality: colorful, controversial, historical, amusing, unusual.
Technique: take-away value, info for all skill levels. Needs direct quotes for medical, nutritional, technical articles. Send samples or work with first query. SASE. No unsolicited art, photos, manuscripts, originals.
Photos: No visible roads, front country shots, sneakers/jeans, fanny packs, 2-burner stoves.
Submission Needs: Hiking, canoeing, kayaking, snowshoeing, X-country skiing, wilderness or backcountry with an overnight minimum, North Am. destinations.
Word Length: Destinations: 1250-1750 words, plus a full Expedition sidebar ( contact, permit, season, hazards, map, guidebook).
Payment: $.60-$1.00 per word. Cover photos: $550-$800. Photos inside: $100-$400.
Rights: Buys all rights.
Address: Backpacker, 33 Minor Street, Emmaus, PA. 18098.

Boaters.com - Description: Boaters.com is a comprehensive power boating and fishing online mag.
Guidelines: Submit query via email to Valarie Thorpe with details including focus, interview subs, a sample lead paragraph or 2, availability & descript of photos, 2 published writing samples -- URLs to online work, or forward clips to address below. Submit email attachments as Word docs, or include all info in body of email.
Rights: We purchase all online rights. The writer retains all print rights, online reprint rights revert back to writer after 1 yr. We do not remove piece from archives, writers can resell it to other online outlets.
Needs: how-to articles to teach an experienced boater some thing new; interviews covering trends in boating & people with passion for boating; current event coverage; travel pieces to look at a unique place, yet still emphasize boating. Our focus is on power boating & fishing. Our audience: experienced boaters.
Art/Photo Needs: Original photos in prints, slides, jpegs to accompany articles. We pay added fee for photos.
Word Length: Full-length features: 800-1,000 words. Shorter pieces: 400-500 words. Short- shorts: 250 words.
Payment: We pay $100 for full-length features; $50 for shorter pieces; $25 for short-shorts (new product spot lights, news briefs.). $10 each for supporting photos.
Rights: We purchase all online rights. The writer retains all print rights, online reprint rights revert back to writer after 1 yr. We do not remove piece from archives, writers can resell it to other online outlets.
Address: Solutions Factory, Inc., 1801 Robert Fulton Drive, Suite 400, Reston, VA, 20191.

E-Magazine - Description: Independent environmental magazine with a circulation of 50,000.
Submission Needs: interested in articles dealing with environmental issues, current environmental thought and action, and the dynamics of the movement.
Payments: pays 30 cents per word upon publication.
Address: submit to jimm@emagazine.com and bhoward@emagazine.com.

Fantasy Sports - Description: This magazine is published for those who participate in Rotisserie and other fantasy sports leagues.
Submission Needs: Editorial includes statistics to help fantasy managers make personnel moves, as well as recommendations about how to draft or trade. Also, reports, extensive stats, and other managerial tips.
Payment: Pays: 1-2 cents per word.
Rights: Purchasing All Rights.
Address; E-mail Queries: ambrosiusg@krause.com

Field and Stream - Has regular "Finally" department that is home of 700-800 word essays each month. Send subs to them at Field and Stream, 2 Park Avenue, NY, NY 10016.

Golf For Women - Description: Quarterly for female golfers with Book excerpts, essays, general interest, historical, how-to (golf related), humor, inspirational, interview/profile, new product, personal experience, photo feature and travel.
Guidelines: Accepts queries by mail, e-mail or fax. Responds in 3 weeks to queries, 1 month to mss.
Word Length: Buys 75 mss (250-2,500 words).
Payment: Pays $1/word on acceptance for all rights. Byline given; 20% kill fee. Accepts queries by mail, e-mail or fax. Responds in 3 weeks to queries, 1 month to mss.
Address: 4 Times Square, 7th Floor, New York NY 10036.

Golf Tips - Description: Published 9 times/year showcasing golf instruction and equipment. Book excerpts, how-to, interview/profile, new product, photo feature, technical, travel and other golf-related topics.
Guidelines: Byline given; 33% kill fee. Accepts previously published submissions. Send complete ms; responds in 1 month to queries. Sample copy and guidelines free.
Word Length: (250-2,000 words).
Payment: Pays 45˘-$1.20/word on publication.
Rights: First North American serial and second serial (reprint) rights.
Address: 12121 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1200, Los Angeles CA 90025.

Island Fisherman - Description: West Coast fishing magazine. Published seven times per year.
Submission Needs: Covers fishing on West Coast of BC: saltwater, freshwater such as lakes, rivers, estuaries. One feature in each issue takes place on Queen Charlotte Island, one on Central/North Coast. Considers a few articles other than BC: Mexico, Cuba, Bahamas, Florida.
Length: 800-1000 words.

Outdoor Canada - Description: We cover fishing, hunting and related conservation issues. The content is entirely Canadian.
Word Length: Most articles run from 2,000 to 4,000 words, while shorter pieces can run from 100 to 600 words.
Payment: Writing fees depend on the complexity and length of the article, with rates generally ranging from 50˘ a word and up.
Address: Please forward all submissions and queries to: Outdoor Canada, Robert Biron, Art Director, 25 Sheppard Ave., West, Suite 100, Toronto, Ontario, M2N 6S7.

Skating - Description: Features profiles of elite-level Olympic-eligible athletes and other U.S. Figure Skating members, competition reports, health/fitness features, and skating issues stories. No reprints.
Payment: Pays flat fee of $150 for longer articles (more than 1200 words); $75 for shorter articles (less than 1200 words).
Rights: Buys first serial rights.
Address: Email them at skatingmagazine@usfigureskating.org.