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<br />n 1/"' I. '/') <br />( ",.... <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />~k-. <br />G"" <br />LI>lc.ol."'~~ <br /> <br />~(.OO'!fSy"'P.uFd <br /> <br />Out Plane Rivers are in danger ,~J:.. 70% of their watcrs are allocated for <br />use and (he remaining 30% MC vulnt" 'I.: JS irrigator, pO\ver and developer <br />consortiurm scramble to tap the LIS: :-< \'Char everyone has seemed to forgel <br />along the way is thai we are not d"!\" U:1ZCns of the Platte. :\Ol couming me <br />nvcr itself as an entity, there are r\;~' -,J migrating \lliJdlife \vho have evolved <br />through symbimic relationships \q;:. ',' ',',<tlers over the millenia. Thousands of <br />shorebirds. hundreds of thousand. 1.:~ and millions of \I.'alecfowl make the <br />PlaHc their rC>l-and-refud stop fWP -;'l~\lar'\'lhrough May of each year. The South <br />PJanc's.\\'aters teem v.ith naliw h5h \ ".J (llUflrbs other species - bOlh pft'"daroT <br />and pre)." - rdy upon [he ~ol1h Jf....;' ~:h Pl.ttlCS as safe. fe-.italizmg corridors <br />bet\l1.'en \\'lnter and summer grounll". t'!\lme dens and feeding areas. <br /> <br />\f?o:<ld JOt. be u'il/1'Ig to rdlSt' "'O:,~ 'Ite for those u'ho Cd>:';O:? 'Vlould )'0/4J01l': <br />Rou'e S,,>:c:twr:;'s Voices for lhe Platte ,::l'1"U:rtltlfg C4mpriJg'; 10 flJtd: up whet: <br />/eder.:!. st.::e .:nd lou! o/ficwls.:u cc-';:('''.,:>!.:tmg the f.::e 0/ thn f,;r-rr:,;mmg nt'eT.} <br /> <br />In 1973, the ;';arional Auduhcn S '(Ie:y led the \\'ay in presen1ng the Plaue by <br />esrablishin& the Lillian Annette RO'..n~ ";,inC1uary 10 the center of the historic <br />Sandhill Crane tlY\l.ay and the even n2Ho',\'er streich of rh'er used by the <br />end.rngered \X'hooping Crane, Bur pe-,el'\;ng land is not enough, For u'har is 3 river <br />\\1thou! its water? <br />