Water skiing and sandhill cranes don’t usually go together — until Thursday in the state Assembly, when Republicans tacked a bill creating a sandhill crane hunting season onto another limiting how ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - A bill that would open a sandhill crane hunting season in Wisconsin has been introduced in the state legislature. The proposed legislation is called SB112 in the Senate and ...

Sandhill cranes took flight at sunrise along the Platte River on April 6, 2025, in Kearney. See our photos here.

Each spring, the Platte River Valley in central Nebraska becomes the backdrop for one of North America’s largest wildlife ...

MADISON - To shouts of protest from surprised Democrats, Republicans on Feb. 19 rolled a sandhill crane hunt bill and regulations for wake surfing into one bill. Through an amendment crafted before ...

NAVARINO (WLUK) -- The sights and sounds of spring are all around. "A lot of times you can hear them before you're going to see them. We'll hear them. We will hear them all over, flying overhead," ...

The return of the sandhill crane to Wisconsin is a conservation success, but now the state needs to manage the population and the crop damage the birds can cause. (Wisconsin Department of Natural ...

One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a bright red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

For the third time in 14 years, a bill to open a sandhill crane hunting season in Wisconsin has been introduced in the Legislature. The previous proposals failed to advance to the governor, even ...