Historically, the nearly extinct whooping crane migrated across the heartland of America. Now, the migration is all but a memory. The wetlands and prairies were ideal stopover points for the whooping cranes as they migrated south to their coastal winter range. The species was nearly wiped out in the last century with habitat loss, agriculture, development pressures, and indiscriminate hunting. Today, a remnant population is being hand raised and nurtured to fly across the heartland of America once again. I will look at species loss, the prairie landscape and the issues of land use conflict using art to communicate a concern to all who fly, like the cranes once did, across the heartland of America.
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