Doc’s Memorial Outdoor Adventures Mission Statement
“To facilitate outdoor experiences for youth and their families in order to build an appreciation for nature, conservation and outdoor opportunities and knowledgeable, responsible and involved outdoors men and women”.
Doc’s Memorial Outdoor Adventures founder, Keith Martz, is a life-long outdoorsman and has decades of experience in the education and outdoor industries. Mr. Martz is a thirty year teacher, and has been running courses in outdoor education for 25 years. He has been executing “outdoor trips” since the late 90s, growing from occasional small ventures to 10-15 excursions per school year. He is certified by Texas Parks and Wildlife as a volunteer instructor in Hunter Safety, Boater Education and Angler Education. He was the Texas Hunter Educators Instructors Association’s Hunter Safety Professional Educator of the year in 2018. In 2023 He received the President’ Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service exceeding 4000 hours. He serves on the board of the Texas Hunter Educators Association as the director in Region 2, North Texas.
He is an Olympic Level One and NASP BAI Archery instructor, and was given the “Archery Advocate Award” as the longest serving NASP instructor in Texas in June of 2022.
Keith is a Texas Youth Hunting Program Certified Huntmaster, and uses that qualification to run TYHP hunts across the state for his students and other Texas youth.
In order to better facilitate his passion to introduce students/youth to the outdoors, he created Doc’s Memorial Outdoor Adventures, a charity with the explicit purpose of facilitating that exposure to outdoor pursuits. Doc’s is the final name put on a career-long goal of getting kids “outside”. For over twenty five years, long before it became a buzzword, Mr. Martz has been doing the “Three R’s”…….recruiting, retaining and reactivating youth and their parents to the outdoor pursuits of hunting, fishing and camping. His success is dependent on surrounding himself with equally passionate volunteers and landowners, without which, his program could not have been successful. Together though, they have helped change the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of youth over his teaching career. Doc’s is a memorial to Keith’s father, who instilled in him the love of the outdoors and all things wild.
In Memory of Doc – Inspiring Outdoor Youth Adventures 