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Much of the Monahans Sandhills are privately owned property. The state of Texas is operating a 99-year lease with the Sealy-Smith Foundation for the ranch on which most of the land of the state park is located; the park opened to the public in 1957, and the state park has leasehold rights to this parcel of the sand hills until 2056. [3]
The Legislative Council Study Committee on Sandhill Cranes met Aug. 1. The group is charged with offering ideas to reduce 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]
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is a 6,440-acre (26.1 km 2) wildlife refuge located about 20 mi (32 km) south of Muleshoe, Texas, on Texas State Highway 214.It is the oldest national wildlife refuge in Texas, having been established as the Muleshoe Migratory Waterfowl Refuge by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. [1]
A committee on sandhill cranes will meet Wednesday to discuss its findings and potential bills to assist farmers with crane-caused crop damage. A committee on sandhill cranes will meet Wednesday ...
Three states in the Mississippi Flyway hold sandhill crane hunting seasons during fall or winter: Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. In the 2021-22 hunting season, the states reported a harvest of ...
Young whooping cranes completing their first migration, from Wisconsin to Florida, following an ultralight aircraft from Operation Migration. Operation Migration was a nonprofit, charitable organization, which developed a method using ultralight aircraft to teach migration to captive-raised, precocial bird species such as Canada geese, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, and endangered whooping ...
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.