Dana
Michaels Starts New Adventure
Written
by SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel
Longtime wildlife defender Dana
Michaels, a public information and marketing specialist with the California
Department of Fish and Wildlife, is retiring after 25 years with the agency as
a writer, editor and spokesperson.
Michaels put her communications
skills and passion for the environment to good use helping to protect the
Golden State's natural resources and endangered species.
Working to save sea otters, the
California Condor, Northern Spotted Owl and plants from the tiniest flowers to
the towering redwoods…
she was as comfortable out in the
field as she was writing a news release.
Starting out in radio, Michaels was
an on-air personality at stations from Los Angeles to Anchorage.
After working at Country-105 and COOL-101
in Sacramento, Michaels, who’s one of the Sacramento Valley Broadcast Legends,
eventually found her calling at the CDFW.
SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and
Patti Kishel could always count on her to keep us informed about the state’s environmental
issues, whether it was a drought or beach erosion, protecting native habitats
or safeguarding animals.
Michaels' last project at the CDFW was
reporting on the reintroduction of the endangered Pauite Cutthroat Trout to Silver
King Creek in the High Sierras.
The trout, which had almost
disappeared, were rescued and returned to their historic natural habitat. Michaels
worked on the project for ten years so it’s fitting that it came to fruition
just as she retired.
Now, Dana Michaels has other
projects to pursue – finishing the novel she’s writing, playing rhythm guitar in
a traditional Scottish quartet, and exploring the world she’s helped to make a
better place.
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