I’m an award-winning freelance writer based in northern Ontario specializing in environmental and outdoor adventure. My passion is communicating about humans’ interaction with the natural world. I’ve reported on topics ranging from the environmental impacts of mining to urban adventures, powerboat maintenance to ecological interactions. CONTACT ME for accurate, insightful journalism, catchy, search engine-optimized web writing, press releases, marketing copy and sharp report-writing and editing services.
* Winner of a 2010 Northern Lights Award for Travel Journalism (1st Place, independent journalist, magazine)
* Finalist–2011 Ontario Travel Summit Best Travel Journalism Award
* Author of The Greatest Lake: Stories from Lake Superior’s North Shore (2012, Dundurn Press)
Listen to an interview with Conor Mihell on WTIP, northern Minnesota radio.
In this feature story I take readers on a sea kayak tour of the islands and saunas of northwestern Lake Superior.
This short population biology primer was published as a Phenomenon column in one of the most widely read outdoors magazines in the United States. I had another story describing hiking in Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park (“Trekking the Long Range Traverse”) in the same issue.
More of an inside joke than anything, this piece is a parody of outdoor fashion norms and a brief take on a friend’s love for Value Village.
In this short feature for Cottage Life magazine I explore Ontario’s ban on cosmetic pesticides, which came into effect in the summer of 2009. My piece outlines the environmental effects of pesticides and investigates what the ban might mean for water quality in Cottage Country.
My first feature assignment for ON Nature magazine explored what Ontario’s new Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act means for the ecological integrity of the province’s protected places.
A feature-length investigation of Ontario’s mining legislation and its environmental implications.
This feature story describes the creation of the world’s largest freshwater protected area, located in northwestern Lake Superior, and the environmental uncertainty that remains in the area.
