Authored by: Paul Wait / Delta Waterfowl // March 31, 2025 .
Reprinted from Wisconsin Outdoor News, with permission.
Right now, if you ask Wisconsin’s corn growers and potato producers, they’ll tell you our state has a sandhill crane problem. The population of sandhill cranes has quadrupled over the past two decades, and crop damage caused by the big birds has reached an estimated $2 million annually in Wisconsin.
Unless we find solutions soon, the burgeoning population of sandhill cranes is on a pathway to become an even larger problem.
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