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Presenters of the Yampa Valley Crane Festival

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CCCC’s Mission

Conserving Rocky Mountain Greater Sandhill Cranes and their habitat through science and education.

Learn more about Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition

 

Sandhill Cranes

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. At summer’s end during the peak of their stopover in the Yampa Valley, we present our annual crane festival. The purpose of the Yampa Valley Crane Festival is to educate the public about these ancient birds and to celebrate their presence in Northwest Colorado.

Aldo Leopold, the famous conservationist, wrote in a Sand County Almanac,

“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.”

Once you have heard the call of a crane, you will remember it forever.


Highlights from 2022

Check out this infographic about our education, awareness, and science programs for 2022!


Sandhill Crane Nest Camera

Photo by Abby Jensen

Our Crane Nest Camera has ended for the season. You can still check out the highlight videos and see a summary of this year’s nest camera season.

Crane Nest Camera

Yampa Valley Crane Festival

CCCC presents the annual Yampa Valley Crane Festival each fall. The festival occurs in beautiful Northwest Colorado where Greater Sandhill Cranes gather in staging areas to feed before migrating south.

Our 11th annual Yampa Valley Crane Festival took place September 1-4, 2022.

Save the date for our 12th annual festival to take place Aug 31-Sept 3, 2023.

 

Yampa Valley Crane Festival

 

 

Yampa Valley Cranes

Sandhill Cranes breed, raise their young, and stage during the fall in the Yampa Valley of Northwest Colorado. Check out this short video of our Yampa Valley Cranes from breeding through staging:

 

Greater Sandhill Crane Week

Greater Sandhill Crane Week is March 1-8 and was created to spread awareness of Sandhill Cranes. It is also when Sandhill Cranes start returning to the Yampa Valley for the spring/summer.

CCCC News

January 3, 2023


Welcome to a new year!


CCCC is hiring for a part-time Operations Coordinator to join our team! Read the full job description here.


The Crane-inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest is accepting submissions through March 25, 2023. This contest is open to Routt and Moffat high school seniors to submit a piece of written or visual arts inspired by our Rocky Mountain Sandhill Cranes to earn money for continuing education. Read the contest rules here.


Rocky Mountain Sandhill Cranes are in New Mexico and Arizona for the winter. They will spend the winter foraging and resting with their families.


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