Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks looks into wildlife management & Chronic Wasting Disease with Mike Thompson

Mike Thompson is the region two wildlife manager for Montana Fish,
Wildlife & Parks. Mike has had a 40-year commitment to managing
and conserving the wildlife resources of Montana. Mike’s incredible
work ethic, communication skills and unfailing ability to guide
discussions and decisions concerning controversial wildlife issues
and land acquisitions, is a true gift. Mike continues to bridge the
gap among the biological, social and political sciences to
represent the agency in a way that earns public trust and support.
Mike’s career with FWP began in 1980. His early work included
fencing on the Mt. Haggin Wildlife Management Area and working the
paddlefish run at Intake along the Yellowstone River. In 1981, Mike
completed his Master’s Degree at Montana State University by
studying mountain goats along the Rocky Mountain Front. FWP hired
Mike as a field assistant on the Elkhorn Mountains Elk Ecology
project, to help develop an elk management plan for the area. Mike
became a full-time FWP wildlife biologist in 1987, working in the
Blackfoot watershed. Mike has been a principal force behind the
conservation of more than 220,000+ acres of wildlife habitat in
Western Montana. Mike has an uncanny ability of representing
biological data and information in a way that anyone can relate to
and understand. He does this through casual conversation,
presentations, interviews, and now social media. Mr. Thompson,
alias Mike Twain, authored more than 662 “Game Range Ramblings,” a
column published weekly in the Seeley-Swan Pathfinder newspaper.
The column had a 15-year run, became a readers’ favorite, and built
and maintained a constituency for FWP in the Blackfoot and Swan
Valleys. Mike’s list of co-authored publications and research
papers is as long as his daily trip from his office to the front
office candy box Mike Thompson has provided Montana’s residents and
its natural resources with highly creditable service.

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