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Blumm, Michael C.

 Person

Biographical note

Michael Charles Blumm was born in in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. He attended the University of Virginia and Williams College in Massachusetts. He then taught high school in Tucson, Arizona, for a year, before attending law school in Washington, D.C. He worked as an attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency, then he became a law professor at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, in 1978. He was editor of the Natural Resources Law Institute’s Anadromous Fish Law Memo, and during the 1990s, he was also co-director of the Northwest Water Law and Policy Project.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Blumm in his interview; Blumm's faculty page, Lewis and Clark Law School website (undated, accessed February 2026), https://law.lclark.edu/live/profiles/250-michael-blumm

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Oral history interview with Michael C. Blumm

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2734
Abstract Oral history interview with Michael C. Blumm, conducted by Clark Hansen in two sessions, on November 30, 1999, and February 9, 2000, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Blumm discusses his work as an environmental lawyer in Portland, Oregon, and shares his thoughts about the effectiveness of the Northwest Power Act of 1980, water budgets, fish hatcheries, and the Northwest Power Planning Council in protecting anadromous fish populations in the Columbia River...
Dates: 1999 November 30-2000 February 9