Endangered cranes on center stage at Necedah
NECEDAH, Wis. (AP) — It’s a big weekend in Necedah for whooping cranes and for those working to save them from extinction.
The Necedah Whooping Crane Festival is being held Saturday in the same area where researchers have been raising young cranes for the past seven years and leading them with ultralight aircraft on a journey to a Florida wildlife refuge. From then on, the birds migrate on their own.
The goal of the project is to create a second migratory flock of the endangered birds in North America, and there’s been significant progress toward that end.
That progress, as well as the problems encountered along the way, will be the subject of meetings being held over the next several days as crane experts share information and ideas.
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