Commentary: It’s time to establish a hunting season for Wisconsin’s sandhill cranes
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If you want to know what’s happening in rural America, ask a farmer.
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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