Cranes, suburbia and sprawl
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- March
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No, we’re not talking about the large machines that can heft mighty loads, but rather the endangered whooping crane. Specifically, I’m pointing you to this video and related story in the NY Times about two whooping cranes that stopped this winter on a Tennessee farm not far from Nashville. The birds touched down in an area that is morphing from farmland to subdivisions. Like the birds, the farmer in the story is seen as an endangered species.
On a mostly unrelated note, my only brush with cranes came with sandhill cranes, the whooper’s cousin. On a trip to Disney World a few years ago, we stayed in a townhome outside of the park. One evening, a pair of sandhill cranes showed up on our back patio and spent some time examining themselves (or their reflections)  in the sliding screen door. They would stare at themselves in the glass, nose around for a few bugs and come back for another look.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
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Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
