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Protecting Plovers in Chicago - Montrose Beach

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.

Sciende, Art and Climate Change - Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk Pavilion, courtesy of Katherine Moore Powell

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Science, Art and Climate Change

June 22, 2019June 25, 2019 Mike Nowak Bartlett Tree Experts, Beasts At Bedtime, Christine Esposito, Dr. Liam Heneghan, environment, fungal diseases, gardening, Montrose Beach Dunes, Peggy Malecki, piping plover, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, Third Coast Disrupted

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Scott Stringer from Bartlett Tree Experts answers your tree care questions. Christine Esposito of Terracom and Dr. Liam Heneghan from DePaul University explain how Third Coast Disrupted: Artists + Scientists on Climate can make people more aware of the threat to our planet posed by the climate crisis. Montrose Beach Dunes steward Leslie Borns and Carl Giomettil from the Chicago Ornithological Society have the latest on the battle to preserve a fragile ecosystem on Chicago’s lakefront from a proposed rock concert.