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Although no evidence was produced Thursday that a sandhill hunting season in Wisconsin would reduce crop damage or produce revenue sufficient to cover the more than $1 million annually in crane ...
A committee on sandhill cranes will meet Wednesday to discuss its findings and potential bills to assist farmers with crane-caused crop damage.
The greater sandhill crane proper initially suffered most; by 1940, probably fewer than 1,000 birds remained. Populations have since increased greatly again. At nearly 100,000, they are still fewer than the lesser sandhill crane, which, at about 400,000 individuals continent-wide, is the most plentiful extant crane. [26] [40]
A study conducted by the UW Survey Center found 17% of state residents would support a sandhill crane hunting season while 48% oppose the idea.
The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.
The largest prairie area in the southern Atlantic coastal plain was in the Florida panhandle region, ... Florida sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pratensis) [8]
A hunting season on sandhill cranes will instead further widen the gap rather than help close the gap. Tim Eisele is a freelance outdoor writer and manager of private land in Crawford County.
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