Over the Years...

Great Lakes Piping Plovers

A great many people have given their time and energy to the recovery of Great Lakes Piping Plovers over the past decades. Without the dedication of all, Piping Plovers wouldn't be making steady progress towards recovery.

Abby Powell and Plover

Jen Stucker

Cathy Haffner and Liz Price

Monitoring at Port Inland

Steph Schubel, Charlie Smith

Monitoring on North Manitou Island

Alex Smith, Mark Westbrock, Erin Roche

Plover crew at Sleeping Bear

Jack Dingeldyne, Pat Ryan, Steve Yancho, Kim Struthers, Amanda Brushaber, Pete Butchko, Max (Holden) Old-Bear

Cathy Haffner with chick

Anhony Arnold, Erin Roche, Mark Westbrock

Liz Price - data recording

Banding at Cat Island, WI

Tom Prestby, Josh Martinez, Jordan Rutter, Gary VanVreede

Jack Dingeldyne, Alice Van Zoeren, Kelsi Hunt Erin Roche, Toothpaste (parakeet)

Lauren Brudney

Liz Price and Jen Stucker

North Manitou breakfast

Bishnu Lama, Charlie Smith

Surveying High Island

Charlie Smith and Zach Beach

UP plover training, 2011

Boat to North Manitou 2006

Mark Westbrock, Nate Harris, Bishnu Lama

Constance Johnson, Bishnu Lama - chick release

Treana Mayer - North Manitou Island monitor

Ben Cooper

Evening on North Manitou Island

Bishnu Lama, Paul Doshkov, Nathan Walker, Charlie Smith

Au Sable Point exclosure team

Platte Point - Sleeping Bear Dunes

Ken Hyde, Amanda Brushaber

Nancy Seefelt 2012

Anthony Wilson and Greg Rigney

With North Manitou Island scarecrow - "Plover Pat".

Dave Schroder dropping off crew on North Manitou

Jenn Stucker weighing a plover - 2005

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Banding Crew, Kelly, Mel and Misha, Platte Point

Erin Roche banding chicks - 2005

Jack Dingeldyne

Crossing the Platte River

Erin Roche, Kelsi Hunt and Brigid Murphy

Mark Westbrock banding chick - 2006

Julie Markiewicz, Lee Bragg, North Manitou Island

Chick banding High Island, 2018

Clint Boulton (Little Traverse Bay Band), Noah Jansen (LTBB), Derek DeRuiter (Pilot) Dr. Francie Cuthbert, Stephanie Schubel, Megan Diamond.

South Fox Island - 2018

Megan Diamond and Stephanie Schubel

Evelyn Wood - Grand Marais, MI, 2018

2018 End of Season meeting

South Fox Island - 2018

Stephanie Schubel

Flight to High Island - 2018

Stephanie Schubel and Megan Diamond

Steph Schubel and Jack Dingeldyne

Alice and Megan on North Manitou

2018 Chick banding on North Manitou

Leaving Dimmick's on the Nahma,2020-06-1

Scott Mills, Chelsea Loomis, Dane Williams and Captain Dave (at the helm)

Heading to North Manitou during pandemic

Alice Van Zoeren, Chelsea Loomis and Captain Dave Schroeder.

Boat ride to North Manitou

Anthony Wilson, Pat Ryan and Captain Dave Schroeder.

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