During the week of spring break, ten students travelled alongside four UNL School of Natural Resources instructors to central Nebraska to watch as hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes descended on the Platte River to rest and refuel during their yearly migration north. The "Prairie Cranes and Sandhills Chickens" course gives students a rare opportunity to see how conservation organizations, such as the Crane Trust, and private individuals work to conserve these critical species and their landscapes in Nebraska.
