Michael has covered the Interior Department, the Fish and Wildlife Service and endangered species since 2017. He previously covered California and legal affairs for McClatchy's Washington Bureau. He is the author of three books, "The Ministers' War," "Radical Chapters" and "The Forestport Breaks." He graduated from Oberlin College and earned master's degrees from Yale Law School, where he was a Knight Journalism Fellow, and from Johns Hopkins University. He is an adjunct instructor at George Washington University and is a Virginia-certified EMT.
Sara Parker Pauley, director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, has made history again, with her election as the first female president of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies.
The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today introduced the latest, albeit still familiar, version of Republican Endangered Species Act legislation.
Interior Department watchdogs revealed today they had "successfully attacked" the department's myriad wireless networks, in a sobering assessment of persistent security gaps.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating reports of an unusual number of bird deaths in New Mexico, though so far, officials are discounting the likelihood of an exotic cause.
The Fish and Wildlife Service declared today the western population of yellow-billed cuckoo still warrants federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.