hired to work on Michigan’s endangered species program. During her years at DNR, she was heavily involved in efforts to save the Kirtland’s warbler songbird from extinction, and said she ...

Throughout the 1900s the Kirtland’s warbler was known to exist only in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. It wasn’t until the 1950s that officials started to look at this ...

The population of Kirtland’s warblers was down to fewer than 200 individuals during parts of the 1970s and 1980s and only found in Michigan. After a decades-long effort by conservation groups, the ...