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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

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.” Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone.

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

10,000 Birds

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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