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Mike Helm is a 5th generation Oregonian who grew up in Pendleton, where he learned to fish and hunt, ride horses, and harvest peas and wheat.
He earned degrees from the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, served in the Marine Corps and the Peace Corps, and has been on the Board of Directors of Oregon Wild for nearly 20 years. Mike is the former editor of The Runoff, a Sierra Club publication for SW Oregon, and he served for several years on the Oregon League of Conservation Voters Lane County steering committee. He was, for many years, a high school English teacher and soccer coach in Eugene.
Mike’s first book, Eugene, Oregon--A Guide,
was a small press phenomenon in 1980, as it sold 3000 copies in its first 30 days on the market. He then compiled and edited the work of Fred |
Lockley, a pioneer journalist for the Oregon Journal, into Conversations with Pioneer Women, Conversations with Pioneer Men, and two other volumes currently out of print. He wrote Tracking Down Coyote, a book of Oregon history, mythology, and folklore and Oregon’s Ghosts and Monsters, where you might find out about the ghost lurking in your own neighborhood. He is currently working on biography of Robert N. Stanfield, United States Senator from Oregon (1920-1926) who at one time owned more sheep than anyone else in the world.
Mike is an avid river rafter, biker, skier, and camper who thinks that if Heaven isn't just like Oregon he'll just stay here.
He currently lives with his wife, Chris, in Eugene. |
