It is with much sadness that we share the passing of our friend and talented artist, Victor Bakhtin. Victor painted the beautiful murals in our Platte River Theater and Whooping Crane exhibit (shown above), and designed the graceful crane gates at the entrance to our headquarters.
Finally, the Stories of our Co-founder George Archibald in Print!
“The sadness discernible in some marshes arises, perhaps, from their once having harbored cranes. Now they stand humbled, adrift in history” ~ Aldo Leopold, Marshland Elegy
The yellow and blue dots on this map are the locations of Wattled Cranes identified during aerial surveys in Mozambique in 2008-09. These data help ICF researchers estimate population sizes and also can be used to analyze the habitats used by cranes. The varying colors on the map correspond with different types of vegetation and land cover, which means that researchers can identify target areas for crane conservation.
