Tuesday, June 11, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm

Sandhill cranes are the most numerous of the world's fifteen crane species. Join us for a talk that will follow this species from tropical forests to arctic tundra, and the places they go in between for survival. They inhabit many varied places in North America and Asia in both migratory and non-migratory populations. This species is back from an ecological brink story - Aldo Leopold wrote them an elegy, after all - to become a conservation success story. Lessons learned from this history can be applied to other cranes, such as the endangered Whooping Crane.

Anne Lacy grew up in Madison, leaving to attend college in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She received a B.A. in Psychology (1991) and returned to get a B.S. in Biology (1994). Anne was accepted to the graduate program in Biology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. And after finishing coursework in Duluth in 2000, Anne received an internship at ICF, while also completing her thesis. After completion of her M.S., Anne accepted a full-time position at ICF as a research associate in the Field Ecology Department, working on an ongoing long-term study of Sandhill cranes. She added Whooping Crane work in the last decade, as a member of the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership. This work centers on the ecology of the newly reintroduced Whooping Cranes in Wisconsin and how to bring them to self-sustaining status.

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