Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is the heart of migratory piping plover habitat in the upper Great Lakes. But experts worry recent Trump administration spending cuts may leave gaps in ...

LANSING, MI – Michigan wildlife officials are picking up the tab for critical efforts in Great Lakes piping plover conservation work. For years, officials with the state Department of Natural ...

DESCRIPTION: The piping plover is a small shorebird about seven inches long with a wingspan of about 15 inches. Breeding birds have a sandy-colored back, white underparts and rump, a black upper tail, ...

(WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it won’t let any federal funding issues slow its work to protect the Great Lakes piping plover. A DNR spokesperson confirmed to News ...

(WOOD) — One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for the Great Lakes piping plover. Francie Cuthbert ...