Alice Van Zoeren, (B.S. Natural History Education, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources) is a local free-lance naturalist and researcher with a particular focus on birds but with wide ranging natural history interests. She works for the Great Lakes Piping Plover Research and Recovery Project at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, monitoring and helping to protect endangered Piping Plovers. She also teaches nature classes through NMC extended education and at Glen Lake Schools covering such topics as birds, orienteering, and animal tracking and is a volunteer docent with the Leelanau Conservancy. More information is available at her website: http://www.sandhillnature.com/.
