2/11/2024 0 Comments Piper traverse city airport![]() ![]() T-shirts and hoodies with his image were made, and a photo of him won a U.S. ![]() ![]() Piper became a sensation when his owner, airport operations manager Brian Edwards, tasked the dog with running birds and wildlife off the runway at Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, Michigan. Piper became the subject of news stories around the world. The Federal Aviation Administration requires an airport to have a Wildlife Hazard Management Plan to “mitigate wildlife hazards to aviation.” There are different approaches that include using traps, lights and sirens, pyrotechnics, and the rarer method – dogs. Nine year old Border Collie, Piper, chased away his last Snowy Owl last week before succumbing to prostate cancer. We start this day with the sad news of the passing of a legend. ![]()
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