By the time this article goes to press, the longest federal government shutdown in US history will have finally ended, but the damage has already been done. Due to the lengthy shutdown – coupled with the challenging lack of water this year – there simply is not enough...
Michael Engelhard is the author of Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range, from which this essay was excerpted. It is spring. Bound for the coastal plain south of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Sea, a sandhill crane and her “siege” approach...
Some of the million Sandhills that stage along the Platt River in central Nebraska. Photo by Sandra Noll. Article by Keanna Leonard, crane expert and long-time presenter at Festival of the Cranes. I live in Nebraska along the central Platte River where around a...
In a New Mexico desert transformed by human activity, wildlife managers create the seasonal wetlands that sandhill cranes rely on each fall and winter. By Allison Torres Burtka, Courtesy of the National Wildlife Federation AS THE SUN STARTS TO RISE on a cold January...
By Claire Revekant, Senior Wildlife Biologist, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge (hereafter; refuge) was established in 1939 to provide a critical stopover site for migrating waterfowl and for use as an inviolate...
