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presents
Nebraska Wildlife Week 2010:
Keep Rivers Wild
for Wildlife
Nebraska's rivers are the lifeblood of our state. They provide drinking water
for much of the state's population, cool power plants, and supply industry and
livestock. Irrigated agriculture is by far the largest consumer of water in
Nebraska. Our rivers also recharge the great groundwater resource, the Ogallala
aquifer, which lies under much of our state.
Fish
and wildlife in Nebraska also rely on Nebraska rivers. Catfish and walleye,
bass, bluegill and crappie are just a few of the 100 species of fish that live
in Nebraska rivers and lakes. Millions ducks and geese migrate through Nebraska,
stopping on our rivers and nearby wetlands. A half-million Sandhill cranes rely
heavily on the wide, shallow channels of the Central Platte River, as do their
much rarer cousin, the endangered Whooping crane. River otters, once eliminated
from Nebraska, are making a comeback, and deer, turkey, and many other mammals
prefer to live near a stream.
Our
2010 Wildlife Week educational materials celebrate the need to keep some
wild-ness in our rivers, lest we lose the fish and wildlife that live there.
At the bottom of this page are links to
curriculum materials and educational web sites that provide
information about rivers and wildlife.
Nebraska
Wildlife Federation also invited Nebraska 4th, 5th
and 6th grade students to enter our annual Wildlife Week Poster Contest,
based on the 2010 Wildlife Week theme: Keep Rivers Wild for
Wildlife.
The April 6 deadline
for entering posters has passed.
2010 Poster Contest Theme:
Keep Rivers Wild for Wildlife
Click here to
read the rules for the Poster Contest:
Winners will be honored at the Nebraska Wildlife Federation’s Annual Gathering,
to be held Saturday, May 1, 2010 at the Pioneers Park Nature Center in
Lincoln.
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