Expected Dates May 15, 2017 to August 4, 2017 Site: Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Position ID PO-00722894 The SCA Piping Plover Technician position will assist the station Wildlife Biologist with monitoring and management actions to recover the threatened Northern Great Plains piping plover population. Specifically, they will help conduct a comprehensive census of breeding adult plovers in the Long Lake Wetland Management District (Burleigh, Emmons, and Kidder counties, ND), monitor nest success and chick survival of identified pairs, implement management actions including the use of predator exclosure cages to improve nest success, assist US Geological Survey biologists with capturing and color-banding plover chicks and adults, and document subsequent re-sightings of banded