Mike McMurray's Forestry Photography Photographer and Videographer Mike McMurray, specializing in outdoor, scenic, wildlife, and forestry photography and videography. photography, photographer, stock photography, stock photos, forest management, ecosystem photography, forest, forestry, sustainable forestry, endangered species, outdoor, scenic, wildlife, wildlife photography, video, videos, videography, calendar, calendars, forest calendars, documentary, documentaries, Mike McMurray Mike McMurray's Forestry Photography photography photographer stock photography stock photos forest management ecosystem photography forest forestry sustainable forestry endangered species outdoor scenic wildlife wildlife photography video videos videography calendar calendars forest calendars documentary documentaries Mike McMurray

Mike McMurray  is a renowned outdoor photographer, who has spent much of last 50 years in the outdoors.  He specializes in forest management photography, forestry, scenic's and wildlife.  He also has extensive experience in capturing 'endangered species'.

His photography regularly appears in many publications, trade journals, association newsletters and state and national forestry publications. He firmly believes that the answer to our 'environmental concerns' can be found in intelligent, science based MANAGEMENT and the utilization of our natural resources.  "If we are truly supposed to 'think globally - act locally', then we must contain most all of our consumptive material needs to our own shorelines.  Locking up our resources and 'environmentally exporting' our demands for materials off-shore is irresponsible and 'liberally arrogant.'  We have the resources, the science and technology to sustainably produce our own requirements without contributing to resource exploitation in other countries.  We can and are doing this in thousands of areas within our borders currently without any degradation to environmental stability."

Mike is a Conservationist, where he defines conservation as 'making the best use of a resource' and we can only do that by sustainably managing that resource. The environmentalist viewpoint of 'locking up' our resources is both irresponsible, un-practical and ultimately to-blame for much of our wholesale destruction of natural resources such as forests, watersheds, water quality and wildlife habitat. He cites the millions and millions of acres of National and BLM Forest lands that are currently dead and dying due to natural fires and forest killing bug infestations, where every attempt to mitigate the damage or restore the forests over the last 25 years have been met with lawsuits by environmentalists to halt forest restoration. This has resulted in these dead-dying-burning forests releasing billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. The annual release of greenhouse gases from this decay is estimated to exceed that of all U.S. man-made causes combined. Mike has documented and followed this degradation for the last 30 years throughout the United States, and has been an activist for sound, scientifically proven, forest management. His calendars on Forests of America have documented the advantages of good management, which is being done primarily by private land-owners and on some States' forest land, who are doing a good job and comparing their management to what isn't being done on our millions of acres of 'public' forest lands. Mike has published his calendars for the last 22 years and the last 12 years calendars are accessible from the side-bar menu.

Mike has over 180,000 images in his stock files, from fire in our forests to wildlife.  The effects of not-managing our forests to sound management-utilization, and most everything in-between. He is respected as perhaps the most comprehensive and knowledgeable photo-journalist on forestry and forest management in the country today.

Mike and M.E.I. Communications also produce video programs and documentaries, covering a wide array of topics and products for a variety of clients.