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from the issue of February 21, 2008
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Forsberg
An exhibit of work by Lincoln photographer Michael Forsberg at the University of Nebraska State Museum coincides with the sandhill cranes' arrival in Nebraska.
| | SUNRISE FLIGHT - Sandhill cranes fly as the sun rises over the Platte River in this image from Michael Forsberg's "On Ancient Wings" exhibition, open through Aug. 14 at Morrill Hall.
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Every March along the Platte River, fields come to life with elegant visitors. At first, the migrating sandhill cranes do not stand out from last harvest's graying stalks, but when the birds rise in graceful flight, thousands of them together with their long legs trailing, they are awe-inspiring. Through 44 stunning color photographs, "On Ancient Wings," on exhibit through Aug. 14 in the museum's third-floor Cooper Gallery, intertwines the lives of cranes, people and their common places. The exhibit tells an enduring story at a time when North American sandhill crane colonies and their natural habitats face daunting prospects.
Forsberg engaged in an extraordinary five-year, 65,000-mile personal odyssey from the Alaskan tundra to the arid high plains of the American West, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards in Florida to document the cranes' native habitat, flyways and annual journeys. Forsberg's work also recorded the extraordinary human efforts undertaken to raise young birds and return them to their natural habitat, and his exploration reveals the challenges cranes face to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world.
"When I am photographing prairie wildlife, I often feel like I am chasing ghosts," Forsberg said, "photographing the survivors of prairie species whose numbers have been decimated, or all but eliminated from these wide-open spaces."
For more information, go online to www.museum.unl.edu or call 472-3779.
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