The Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition has announced Megan (Walker) Karschner as its new executive director. Karschner has lived and worked in the Yampa Valley for the past 15 years, promoting sustainability through education and other nonprofit, community-based.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Habits of the Greater Sandhill crane will be on full display as Yampa Valley’s first live crane cam gets set up later this year.
Paid for with $4,000 in grants from the Yampa Valley Community Foundation, the Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition will install the camera this spring on a private farm in Hayden. It will live stream the nest on the group’s website and allow for anyone with internet access to watch the cranes changing places with their mate, rotating eggs and hatching their chicks. Staff also will edit and post highlights from the nest.
“It’s a really great way to learn about what cranes do on the nest,” said Erin Gelling, program director for the Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition. “One of the big reasons we wanted to be able to do this is to inform people about cranes and about animal behavior itself.”