2013 Schedule
Please note:
Family-friendly activities and live animal shows in the Wild Experience Room on Saturday are free and open to the public.
Space is limited in the crane viewing river blinds at Rowe Sanctuary both Friday and Saturday during the RWC. Make your trip reservations early!
Completed registration forms must be completed online or postmarked by February 28 to receive early registration prices.
| Thursday, March 21 | |
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7:00 am–3:00 pm |
Pre-Festival Full-Day Birding Trip – Joel Jorgensen, Neb. Game and Parks Commission |
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4:00 pm |
Prairie Grouse Lek Viewing (returning 3:00 pm Friday) – Due to trip’s popularity, the trip fee is non-refundable. |
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6:00–9:00 pm |
Sunset Crane Viewing Blind Trip |
| Friday, March 22 | |
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6:00–9:00 am |
Sunrise Crane Viewing Blind Trip |
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6:45 am–3:00 pm |
Full-Day Birding Trip |
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7:00 am–12:30 pm |
Half-Day Birding Trip |
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3:30–8:30 pm |
Sandhill Crane Behavior and Viewing Blind Trip with Keanna Leonard, Rowe Sanctuary |
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6:00–9:00 pm |
Sunset Crane Viewing Blind Trip |
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7:00-9:00 pm |
“The Night Sky – Another of Nature’s Gifts”Astronomy presentation by the Platte Valley Astronomical Observers at the Holiday Inn (Indoor program and outdoor sky viewing, weather permitting) |
| Saturday, March 23 | |
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6:00–9:00 am |
Sunrise Crane Viewing Blind Trip |
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8:30–9:30 am |
Breakfast – Speaker: Marian Langan, Audubon Nebraska (8:45-9:15) |
| Concurrent sessions: | |
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9:30-10:20 am |
Lauren Dinan, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission – “Understanding Piping Plovers’ Lives Through Color Banding: Survival, Movements, Distribution, and Site Fidelity” |
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9:30-10:20 am |
Noppadol Paothong, Missouri Dept. of Conservation – “The Art of Nature: Stories Behind Each Image” |
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10:30-11:20 am |
John Pollack – “Climate Change” |
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10:30-11:20 am |
Dan Fogell – “Snakes of Nebraska” |
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11:30-12:20 pm |
Kent Skaggs & Kevin Poague, Audubon Nebraska – “Birding 101” |
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11:30-12:20 pm |
Wade Harrell – “Conservation Efforts for the Wild, Aransas-Wood Buffalo Whooping Crane Flock” |
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12:30-2:00 pm |
Lunch (served 12:30-1:30) Speaker: Noppadol Paothong (1:00-2:00) – “Making of Save the Last Dance“ |
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2:10-3:00 pm |
Ben Mullarkey & Greg Wingfield, Audubon Nebraska – Managing Habitat (Title TBA) |
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2:10-3:00 pm |
Jason Farnsworth, Headwaters Corporation – “Managing Endangered Species Habitat on the Platte River” |
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3:10-4:00 pm |
Mary Harner, The Crane Trust – “Overwintering Sandhill Cranes on the Platte River – Trend or Anomaly?” |
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Wild Experience Room: |
10:00 am-3:00 pm – Free and open to the public |
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10:30-11:30 am |
Raptor Recovery Nebraska |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Dan Fogell – Snakes Alive |
| Workshop: | |
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2:30-4:30 pm |
Writing Workshop with Dan O’Brien – “The Responsibility of a Conservation Writer” |
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Banquet: |
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7:00-9:00 pm |
Banquet (served 7:00-8:00) Speaker: Dan O’Brien (8:00-9:00) – “Witness to Nature” |
| Sunday, March 24 | |
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6:00-9:00 am |
Sunrise Crane Viewing Blind Trip |
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7:00 am-12:30 pm |
Half-Day Birding Trip |
