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Beaver Island community relays piping-plover nesting protections, 2022

Also Beaver Island piping plover recovery efforts 2022

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TypeEvent
Dates2022-06-02 – 2022-08-15
WithinHigh Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: High Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at High IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Dates
2022-06-02 – 2022-08-15
Kind
Conservation
Where
High Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
birdsecologyconservationpublic-land
Within
High Island

Summary

In June 2022, a Beaver Island notice relayed nesting-protection guidance for piping plovers on the High Island spit. It described seasonal access limits, nest exclosures and trail cameras, leashed dogs, and contacts for reporting human activity.

Evidence limits

This is community-relayed conservation guidance attributed to a tribal natural- resources agency. It documents the stated protection measures, not nest counts, hatch success, or enforcement outcomes.

Sources

  1. The notice described posted seasonal closures on the High Island spit, predator exclosures with trail cameras, leash guidance, and reporting contacts, attributing the signs to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Natural Resource Department. The forum is a relay and does not preserve the agency’s original notice or a nest-outcome report.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017180

Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island community relays piping-plover nesting protections, 2022”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-piping-plover-stewardship-guidance-2022/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island community notice, “Piping Plover Recover Efforts,” Beaver Island Forum, June 2, 2022..

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