Forsberg is a Nebraskan whose 30-year career as a photographer and conservationist has been dedicated to wildlife conservation stories in North America’s Great Plains.
Cook would drive west to San Francisco, where he and his wife, Donna, lived the other half of the year. Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said.
Echoing through the air, the call of thousands of cranes — some endangered — at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge serves as a beacon to bird watchers. For the past 20 years, the protected lands in ...