# a >< >< DA DK DK Da DK HK Da O< PHC Da DK HK Du DC OC Da DC PK DA OM DK D > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/tribal%3Abad_river_chippewa%3A13be6b8cc617f82a ## Record - **Collection:** Tribal code - **Document type:** Tribal code ## Text a > ~ W 4 , [* yy: og “me” Any Questions or Concerns please contact Mashkiiziibii Natural Resources Department @ 715.682.7123 ral Reso Vat % = 4 o a . we oe kk if ke se 2020 SPRING EDITION & dK dK Da DK DK DA DK DK DA DK DK DA DK DK DS BK DK DA DK DK KC OKD Page 5 uy Piping Plover 2020 Season Updates Royce Galindo, Piping Plover Monitor Tis season, the Chequamegon Point Piping Plover Team once again welcomes Royce Galindo, back for his fourth season and overall the 46th Season of the Great Lakes Piping Plover Project. Monitor Royce will be joined by a fellow Northland College grad and firsttime monitor, Dane Hildebrandt. The Piping Plover Project is a cooperative effort between the Bad River Natural Resources Department, the National Parks Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The job of the Piping Plover Monitors is to camp in shifts on Chequamegon Point for the duration of the plovers’ nesting season (late May through August). Daily, they walk along the dunes and beaches of the nesting beaches, recording breeding and territorial behavior, locating plover nests, erecting protective structures around them, counting eggs and chicks, and preventing predation of these endangered birds. Monitors also assist with chick capture and banding, as well as educating island visitors on keeping dogs leashed and minimizing their impact on this endangered bird’s dwindling habitat. This year, plover surveying will began on June 1. So far two pairs of Piping Plovers have been identified, and they each have a nest with four eggs. Three of these plovers—nicknamed “Gelato”, “Mellow”, and “XO” are returners from previous breeding seasons, This year the crew welcomes “Bingwt”’, an adult female. The team’s biggest worry is the presence of out-of -state tourists on the beaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. To lower the risk of spreading disease from tourists to the reservation, the monitors have pledged to distance themselves from the visitors, of course. as well as Bad River community members and community spaces as much as possible. Fortunately, social distancing is easy on the 10+ mile beach that is Chequamegon Point. If you are interest- — currently ed in learning more about the Great Lake Pip- pouring his ing Plover Project or about the ploversin gen- _iheart into eral, please contact Wildlife Specialist Abi creating a Fergus, at the Wildlife Office at the Bad River graphic Natural Resource Department. novel. Royce Galindo is Bad River’s longest-serving Plover Monitor. He started in the summer of 2016, after graduating from Northland College with a degree in Natural Resources. His home is in Chicagoland, but he finds that he cannot stray from the Chequamegon Bay community for more than a few months at a time. When he moves on from the Piping Plover Project, he hopes to stay working with threatened and endangered species--at some point. he would love to help with California Condor recovery efforts, or hummingbird conservation in Mexico, from where his ancestors originated. In his spare time, Royce is a visual artist, who is <> DCC 2020 Earth Day Celebration his year for our annual Earth Day Celebration we did things a little differently. Due to the current pandemic, MNRD decided to have a sign-up sheet for the first 35 households to call and register for our Al HOME Earth Day Cele- bration. We wanted tam- < DK DA DK DK Da DK PK Da DK HK Da OC DK DA DOCK DK Da DK DK DA DK DCD ~MISSION STATEMENT~ The Department strives for resource management which both conserves the natural resources for the future generations and provide for the needs of the present. The departments existence reflects the importance the Bad River Tribe Mashkiiziibii Natural places on its right and ability to exercise sover- Resources Department = ejgnty self-determination and self-regulation in 72682 Maple Street the area of natural resource management. PO Box 3 Odanah, WI, 54806 Phone: 715-685-7840 - 715-682-7123 Were on the Web! Fax: 715-682-7118 Email: NRDOutreach@badriver-nsn.gov Visit www. badriver-nsn. gov like us on facebook --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/tribal%3Abad_river_chippewa%3A13be6b8cc617f82a. Public record. Not legal advice.