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A Bird’s Eye View of the Rainwater Basin

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Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Dozens of WPAs are located in the Rainwater Basin , a region south of the Platte River in south-central Nebraska, at the narrowest point of the Central Flyway.

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A Bird’s Eye View of the Rainwater Basin

10,000 Birds

Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Dozens of WPAs are located in the Rainwater Basin , a region south of the Platte River in south-central Nebraska, at the narrowest point of the Central Flyway.

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Duck Numbers And Duck Stamp Sales No Longer Correlate

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We hypothesized that trends in waterfowl hunter numbers, as indicated by Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Conservation Stamp (duck stamp) sales, have become independent of breeding duck populations, and we assess the impacts on habitat conservation. 4 0.81) and 1995–2008 (r 1?4 for full season access and a super duper version ($50?)

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. million dollars for habitat conservation.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. photo by Cyndi Routledge He called the Platte wetlands restoration project “a crown jewel for Nebraska.” It brings to question the purpose of wildlife management.

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