In his career as a journalist, Michael has won many awards from the Montana Newspaper Association. In addition, he was honored by the Montana Wildlife Federation as the Conservation Communicator of the Year in 2004. He was also at the helm in 2004 when the BRPA was awarded the Special Conservation Achievement Award from the Montana Wildlife Federation. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Burk-Brandborg Conservation Award sponsored by the Five Valleys Land Trust, and in 2006 he received the Outdoor Writer Award from the Montana Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
- Saving the Mitchell
This is the inside story of a decade-long legal battle against a covey of millionaires and billionaires to stop the gutting to stop the gutting of Montana’s Stream Access Law and the removal of almost every stream and river in the state from environmental protection under the Montana Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act of 1975. The Mitchell Slough, originally known as the Right Fork of the St. Mary’s Fork of the Bitterroot River, is a 16-mile-long spring-fed stretch of the Bitterroot River that meanders from just north of Corvallis to just south of Stevensville. In the early-90’s two young men,… Read more: Saving the Mitchell
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