SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR 3rd ANNUAL CRANE MIGRATION CELEBRATION!
Friday, March 14, 2025

conserving rocky mountain greater sandhill cranes + their habitat through science + education

The Greater Sandhill Crane is an iconic species of the Yampa Valley in Northwest Colorado. Returning in the spring from wintering grounds in New Mexico and Arizona, cranes nest and raise their young in wetland areas throughout the valley.

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Save the Date for CCCC’s annual benefit:

Please join us for the 3rd annual Crane Migration Celebration!

  • Friday, March 14, 2025 – 5:30 – 8 PM at the Depot Art Center in Steamboat Springs, CO

This lively event will highlight CCCC’s accomplishments from the past year and the vision for our work in 2025. Enjoy signature dishes from areas along the crane’s migration route, a silent auction, and more! 

  • Registration opens January 17th
  • Online auction begins March 1st 

Thank you to our event Gold Sponsor, AES Clean Energy.

For questions, please contact info@coloradocranes.org

We hope to see  you there! 

 

 

The 2025 Crane-Inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest is Underway:

CCCC is excited to announce the launch of the Crane-Inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest (CASC) on Dec 1, 2024. This annual event is open to all high school seniors in Routt and Moffat Counties. This contest supports local high school students in pursuit of higher education through creative engagement with the arts while raising awareness of Greater Sandhill Cranes in the Yampa Valley.  

A total of $20,000 in scholarship funds will be awarded across 3 categories of art. The deadline for submission is February 18, 2025. Visit our CASC webpage for complete contest rules & information. 

 

 

 

Thank you for your support this giving season:

 Thank you to everyone who donated during the Colorado Gives campaign. If you have not yet donated in 2024, there is still time to make a year-end donation!  Your donation supports:

  • 3rd grade and community education programs
  • The Yampa Valley Crane Festival
  • The live-streaming Crane Nest Camera
  • Crops for Cranes habitat improvement projects, and more! 

Visit CCCC’s support page to learn about ways to donate. 

CCCC is grateful for your support and we thank you for caring for cranes!

 

 

YAMPA VALLEY CRANE FESTIVAL

Thank you for attending the 13th annual festival. We hope you enjoyed your time in the Yampa Valley! Save the date for the 14th annual festival:

August 28 – 31, 2025

View the 4th season of the Crane Nest Camera:

Our appreciation for the crane grows with the slow unraveling of earthly history. His tribe, we now know, stems out of the remote Eocene. The other members of the fauna in which he originated are long since entombed within the hills. When we hear his call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.

– Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac