Wyoming
BIG HORN https://thesheridanpress.com/19002/sandhill-cranes-return-summer-nesting-grounds/
Scottsbluff
Scottsbluff National Monument www.nps.gov/scbl/index.htm
Nebraska - Cranes and Plovers (Trip notes)
Why do you work at The Crane Trust?
Why are migrating birds important?
What are the dangers to migrating birds?
Who is working with The Crane Trust?
What’s your favorite part of working at The Crane Trust?
What’s the most important takeaways from a visit to the Crane Trust?
What work is the Crane Trust involved in?
…Nebraska.
How does the Crane Trust serve the people of Nebraska?
What does the Crane Trust do for the birds of Nebraska? …of the world?
Terns and Plovers
- The Nebraska Environmental Trust. http://www.environmentaltrust.org
- March 21-24, 2019 - Audubon's Nebraska Crane Festival, Kearney NE
- Restoring Native Mussels to Nebraska - submitted by Dean Rosenthal, Nebraska Game & Parks Commission. To date, 13,682 Plain Pocketbook mussels and 4,182 Fatmucket mussels have been stocked back into the streams of Nebraska. An additional 10,000 mussels in the. facility will be released in the spring/summer of 2019. This is an ongoing program and additional species will be cultured in the future for stocking. As indicator species, mussels require good water quality, and as a part of Nebraska’s native fauna it is exciting that the streams of Nebraska will potentially again be homes to mussel populations.
- Platte River a migratory stopover place use for centuries - its conservation is key to cranes’ survival. Feeding areas, health of river for food organisms. algal diets Riverine
- Prairie Corridor Project, City of Lincoln Prairie Tallgrass
- Lincoln and Lancaster County are located in the Tallgrass Prairie Ecoregion, which was historically covered by native tallgrass prairie and home to bison, antelope, grassland birds, and many other plants and animals. This tallgrass prairie is a remarkable, and unfortunately now rare, part of our natural and cultural heritage. Nebraska Natural Legacy Project notes that “approximately two percent of Nebraska’s tallgrass prairie remains, mostly as remnants less than eighty acres in size.” The Prairie Corridor on Haines Branch, funded in part with grants from the Nebraska Environmental Trust, will be a 13-mile corridor of virgin and reestablished tallgrass prairie along a trail generally following the Haines Branch of Salt Creek. The Prairie Corridor presents a unique opportunity to reduce fragmentation with an interconnected, diverse habitat. In addition to tallgrass prairie, riparian stream corridors, woodlands and both freshwater and saline wetlands provide unique habitat, supporting a variety of plant, animal and insect species. Land and easements purchased from interested landowners support these conservation and restoration efforts.
- re-establishment of high diversity tallgrass prairie
- monitoring plant and pollinator species abundance and richness as indicators of habitat that is most supportive of a high pollinator diversity.
- solar photovoltaic panel array has been installed at the north end of the African Grasslands near the Safari Tent Camp at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
- Continous No Till, PrairieLand RC & D CNT works across the entire state of Nebraska to reduce soil erosion, improve soil quality, and reduce irrigation and fuel requirements
- Big Muddy Creek Watershed Project, Nemaha NRD 14 structures to control streambed and streambank erosion. Ultimately these structures will enhance the quality of life of local, rural residents by protecting public infrastructure and utilities, improving water quality, improving ecological diversity and preventing the further loss of agricultural land.
- Woodwaste/Saw Log Utilization and Red Cedar Management Project, Lower Loup NRD
- Grantee Links
- SEE Interior Least Terns and Piping Plovers Plovers Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership
- Protecting The Birds http://ternandplover.unl.edu/law/index-law.asp
- Yellowstone https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/snr/9351/54731 National park podcast features Willemssens, tiger beetle research
- Sandhills Byway https://visitnebraska.com/sandhills-journey-scenic-byway
- Toll from Coal https://www.tollfromcoal.org/#/map/(title:none/NE//detail:none/NE//map:none/NE)
- Nebraska Conservation Education Fund Why Clean Energy Matters Public Health
- Interactive Map https://www.tollfromcoal.org/#/map/(title:none/NE//detail:none/NE//map:none/NE)
- Audubon SH Cranes Range Report https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/sandhill-crane Encroachment of salt water from sea level rise Audubon's climate model projects a 58 percent loss of current winter range by 2080
- Platte River Recovery Implementation programhttps://platteriverprogram.org/document/analysis-impacts-riverine-fish-communities-central-platte-river
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated the reach of the Central Platte River from Lexington to Shelton, Nebraska, as critical habitat for the whooping crane.
Why do you work at The Crane Trust?
Why are migrating birds important?
What are the dangers to migrating birds?
Who is working with The Crane Trust?
What’s your favorite part of working at The Crane Trust?
What’s the most important takeaways from a visit to the Crane Trust?
What work is the Crane Trust involved in?
…Nebraska.
How does the Crane Trust serve the people of Nebraska?
What does the Crane Trust do for the birds of Nebraska? …of the world?
Terns and Plovers
- Ogallala
- Terns and Plovers (rising sea levels and loss of habitat)
- Grantee Links The Nebraska Environmental Partnership
- SEE Interior Least Terns and Piping Plovers Plovers
- Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership
- Protecting The Birds
- http://ternandplover.unl.edu/law/index-law.asp
- Crane Trust
- Part of the Platte River area stopover. Critical habitat for stopover in migration. International Recovery Plan for the Whooping Crane. (Whooping Crane Fact Sheet)
- Kids and veterans - pot luck gatherings (Billie Herron’smodel)
- Surrounding Areas and Preserves
- mixed diet (Sandhill Crane Fact Sheet)