Eric Blanksma and Luke Carlson Promoted to Market Group Office Leaders Morrison-Maierle promoted two of their long-time employee-owners into new leadership roles. In Helena, Eric Blanksma has been promoted as the Water-Wastewater Market Group Office Leader. Eric graduated from Montana State University and has his PE license in MT, SD, ND, and AZ. He is also a certified water/wastewater operator in MT. ​​​​​​​And after seven years with Morrison-Maierle, Luke Carlson has been promoted to the Kalispell Natural Resources Market Group Office Leader. He is a certified floodplain manager with a B.S. from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and an M.S. from Montana Tech.Read More →

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Broadway Island Park Project Opens to the Public By Martin Kidston, Missoula Current An effort to transform a Clark Fork River island into a natural oasis in the heart of Missoula has played out quietly over the past year. Old snags now stand above the river plain, beckoning bugs and birds. Invasive trees like elm and maple have been removed, and saplings from native species have replaced them. This is the evolving face of Missoula’s newest city park on Broadway Island. “At the time we bought it, 75% of this island was covered with nonnative species,” said Chris Behan, assistant director of the Missoula RedevelopmentRead More →

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Mike Gray joins firm as new Natural Resources Market Group Leader Morrison-Maierle is pleased to announce that Mike Gray, PG, has joined the firm as its new Natural Resources Market Group Leader. He succeeds Ken Salo, PE, who held the position for nine years and will continue as Morrison-Maierle’s Chief Engineer and project manager. Mike has spent the majority of his career in progressively responsible positions with engineering consulting companies, including most recently AECOM (formerly URS) where he worked in offices in Billings and Anchorage, Alaska, and Dames & Moore (acquired by URS) where he worked in Anchorage and San Francisco, California. He is aRead More →

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French Gulch and Moose Creek Restoration Morrison-Maierle designed and oversaw implementation of restoration on over 7,400 lineal feet of French Gulch and Moose Creek in Montana’s Mount Haggin Wildlife Management Area. In the early 1900’s this area was mined extensively resulting in abandoned tailings piles in the floodplain. These tailings confined French Gulch, giving it no connection to a functioning floodplain and limiting complex aquatic and riparian habitat. At the Moose Creek site, remnant mining impacts were less severe but still inhibited the connection to the floodplain and stream planform. Morrison Maierle provided its clients, the Big Hole Watershed Committee and Montana Fish, Wildlife andRead More →

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Custer Avenue Interchange Award: 2013 Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Montana, Transportation Category On June 1, 2012, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, United States Senator Max Baucus, and several other local officials dedicated the new Custer Interchange in Helena, Montana.  After eight years of environmental processing, planning, design and construction, this $52 million project is now a reality.  Well-received by local businesses and the general public, the Custer Interchange improvements have solved long-standing drainage issues, redefined the area’s traffic mobility and improved one of the city of Helena’s fastest growing commercial areas. Morrison-Maierle and the Montana Department of Transportation beganRead More →

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