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2018 Crane Festival – Brief Summary

2018 Festival Activities

  • Daily guided sunrise and sunset crane viewing sessions
  • Crane Coloring Contest Awards on Library Lawn
  • Children and family activities led by Yampatika and Colorado Parks & Wildlife
  • Educational displays outside Library Hall
  • Spirit Wind Aerial Arts – crane-inspired flying dancers
  • Nature-journaling workshop with author Ellen Bonnifield and artist Cindy Wither
  • Sketch-A-Bird workshop with professional artist, Chula Beauregard
  • Story-telling in Children’s Story Time Room
  • Birding by pontoon boat at Steamboat Lake with Tom and Linda Litteral
  • Bird and Nature Walk at Yampa River Botanic Park with Ted and Andrew Floyd, Bob and Audrey Enever
  • Crane Yoga
  • Emerald Mountain School String Ensemble led by Mary Anne Fairlie
  • Guided bird walks with Ted Floyd, editor of Birding magazine, and Yampa Valley Birding Club
  • Guided bird walks with Joel Such, staff member of Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, and Yampa Valley Birding Club
  • Gondola ride and a guided nature walk led by botanist Karen Vail on the Steamboat Ski Area
  • Historic Carpenter Ranch homestead tour led by Betsy Blakeslee, TNC’s Facilities Manager
  • Crane-friendly ranch tour at TS Jost Ranch
  • Picnic dinner at The Nature Conservancy’s historic Carpenter Ranch in Hayden including a talk by Birding editor, Ted Floyd
  • Crane yard art display and silent auction on the Library Lawn
  • HawkQuest’s Live Raptor Booth on the Library Lawn
  • HawkQuest’s Live Raptor Photo Shoot
  • Owl pellet workshop for kids, find out what owls eat and how they process their food
  • Photography Contest award presentation in Library Hall
  • Front Range Birding Company Optics Display and Sales Booth
  • “Cranes & Other Crawford Critters: A Guided Walking Tour” led by Marianne Capra

2018 Festival Speakers

  • Keynote Speaker, Anne Lacy- Crane research coordinator for the International Crane Foundation, The Trumpet in the Orchestra of Evolution: The Story of the Sandhill Crane in North America
  • Jennifer Ackerman- Author, The Genius of Birds
  • John Azua- Curator of Birds at the Denver Zoological Gardens, The Cooperative Approach to the Hooded Crane Species Survival Plan in North America
  • Chip Clouse- Manager of the Front Range Birding Company, Optics 101- Choosing the Right Binocular for you
  • Ted Floyd- Editor of Birding Magazine
  • Pam Liu- Artist, educator, ecologist, The Inspiration and Influence of Cranes in Chinese Culture
  • Kin Quitugua- Educator, master falconer and founder of HawkQuest, Birds of Prey
  • Paul Tebbel- Crane expert and former Executive Director of Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary, Why We Love Cranes

2018 Festival Films

  • Free Like a Crane, an award winning documentary film by French filmmaker Maxence Lamoureux and Arnaud Devroute
  • Cranes of the Rockies, film by Michael Bennett about the Rocky Mountain population of Greater Sandhill Cranes

2018 Festival Sponsors and Partners

Gold Sponsors

  • Xcel/Hayden Station
  • Keller Law
  • Mountain Valley Bank

Silver Sponsors

  • Abby Jensen Photography

Bronze Sponsors

  • David Lamb/Edward Jones
  • Off The Beaten Path
  • Photo Express House

Partners

  • Alpine Lumber
  • Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
  • Bud Werner Memorial Library
  • Ciao Gelato
  • City of Steamboat Springs
  • Colorado Parks and Wildlife
  • Ann Dadson & Robert Larkin
  • Honey Stinger
  • International Crane Foundation
  • KT Law
  • Lone Oak Studio
  • Marabou
  • Paul King
  • PhotoGraphicsArt
  • PostNet
  • Resort Lodging Company
  • Steamboat ACE Hardware
  • Steamboat Lumber
  • Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation
  • Steamboat in the Summer
  • Steve Cobb
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • US Forest Service
  • Yampa Valley Electric Association- Operation Round Up
  • Gerhard Assenmacher
  • Yampa Valley Birding Club
  • Yampatika
  • Yampa Valley Brewing Company
  • Yampa Valley Land Trust
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