Trout Unlimited (TU) is pleased to welcome Mike Ward to the Trout TU team working on the Enloe Dam Feasibility Study.  Mike will be serving as Project Manager for  Enloe Dam Feasibility Study for TU.

Mike is a consulting fisheries ecologist who has lived in the Okanogan (Wauconda and Tonasket) for nearly 30 years and brings a local perspective to the Feasibility Study.  He is excited to work with the PUD, the Tribes, fellow residents of the north valley and other interested parties to find ways to make the study  a success.  His openness and connections with the local community will be essential to making sure that any work that happens at Enloe will not hurt local water resources, neighboring properties, or be a liability to local agencies.

Restoring salmon and steelhead populations to habitats influenced by hydropower is one of Mike’s career specialties.  Mike has consulted for nearly 40 years (as owner and manager of various small businesses) with many private and public electric utilities, as well as landowner groups and tribes, planning and evaluating fish restoration projects in the Upper Columbia, California, and Oregon.  He will bring a data-driven approach, deep scientific expertise, and businessman’s sense of the bottom-line to assessing the feasibility of options at Enloe Dam. 

Feel free to reach out to Mike at Michael.Ward@TU.org if you have any questions or suggestions for the Enloe Dam Feasibility Study.  He can also be reached at 509-883-8451.