Kathleen Thompson Archives

Protecting Piping Plovers in Chicago

June 29, 2019July 2, 2019 Mike Nowak Chicago Ornithological Society, environment, fireworks, gardening, Great Lakes, Kathleen Thompson, MAMBY, Montrose Beach, Peggy Malecki, piping plover, Recall Desk, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show

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Mike and Peggy follow up on last week’s conversation about the return of the piping plover to Chicago’s Montrose Beach, and how its progress is being threatened by the scheduled MAMBY concert event. Paul Fehrenbacher from the Montrose Lakefront Coalition (MLC) and Douglas Stotz, senior conservation ecologist in the Keller Science Action Center at the Field Museum are working to save an endangered species. Kathleen Thompson reports from the “Recall Desk.” You won’t want to miss it.