Mike Thalhauser, Project Manager

Mike started working for MCHT in the fall of 2025, and has lived in Brooklin, Maine for 10 years where he serves on the Brooklin Shellfish Committee and the PTA and absolutely loves his community. Mike came to MCHT after 20+ years of doing work on collaborative fisheries management in rural Alaska, working with Native subsistence-based communities, and more recently in Stonington, where he worked for the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries in the policy and co-management world alongside Downeast Maine fishermen and fishing communities.

Mike and his two children, Fisher and Watson love to find, chase and explore new outdoor passions and are always looking for the funnest and most interesting people, places and paths in this crazy world (and great state) we live in.

On land conservation: “One of the most exciting things about working in land conservation, and specifically working with MCHT, is that it feels like pretty much any project or goal can be an MCHT project, so long as it has to do with people and land and the future… and what doesn’t involve those things here in Maine?!  Which, of course, means that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!”

On the job: As a Project Manager, Mike works on land projects along the coast from around Camden and the incredible Ducktrap River, up to Ellsworth and the gateway to Downeast Maine.  Mike thinks work gets better when we do more listening than we do talking, and that collaborative efforts are the best and strongest ones.”