This project is of great benefit to the critically endangered Great Lakes Piping Plover population.
Michigan DNR State Parks will hire a piping plover monitor to help find and protect endangered Great Lakes piping plovers nesting at Muskegon State Park.
After a many decades long absence
piping plovers returned to breed at this state park a few years ago.
This is a very busy state park and the monitor will help protect the plovers by educating the public about this endangered species.
The Michigan DNR has the contacts and cost-sharing abilities to continue this activity in the best way possible to maximize benefits to this endangered species.