Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a pre-ice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane conversation going on today along the Platte." Johnsgard has spent nearly a half century observing cranes, from a yearly foray to Nebraska\'s Platte River valley to see the spring migration, to pilgrimages to the birds\' wintering groun.
Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time.
Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A