along the Platte River, Nebraska

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• Subjects: effort. As part of the study; scientists; Arctic; Canada; Corridor The; Corridor, The; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.404.5344; http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3029/pdf/fs2005-3029.pdf

Each spring approximately 500,000 sandhill cranes and some endangered whooping cranes use the Central Platte River Valley in Nebraska as a staging habitat during their migration north to breeding and nesting grounds in Canada, Alaska, and the Siberian Arctic. Over the last century changes in the flo...