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Mike Connelly used to be a public lands rancher and a hay farmer on the Bureau of Reclamation's Klamath Irrigation Project. In 2001, water was shut off to most of the Klamath Project. The reasons for this are complicated , but the result for Mike was that, a little while after, he lost the ranch and the cattle.
For many years before 2001 Mike, like so many Klamath irrigators, volunteered in an effort to organize and advance community-based habitat restoration and resource stewardship. He was founding chair of the Klamath Watershed Council, and founding chair of the Cloverleaf Stewardship Group. He has received the Governor's Oregon Plan for Salmon & Watersheds Leadership Award, as well as the Merit Award from the Klamath Basin Water User's Association.
After 2001, Mike moved from the 2500 acre ranch to a town lot, and went to work for a diverse group of stakeholders, building a small collaborative non-profit called the Klamath Basin Ecosystem Foundation. This organization's mission is to help resolve conflicts through local community-based planning and stewardship. KBEF seeks to integrate stewardship activities with efforts to enhance the vitality of local agricultural economies, and with efforts to raise the level of cultural tolerance and understanding through communication and celebration.
Mike is a published author of essays, fiction and poetry, appearing in Orion Magazine, Utne Reader, Open Spaces, Northern Lights, Wild Duck Review, Cascade Cattleman, California Cattleman, and several others.
Mike Connelly
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