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George William Archibald (born 13 July 1946) is the co-founder of the International Crane Foundation and was the inaugural winner [1] of the 2006 Indianapolis Prize. Archibald was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia , Canada to Donald Edison and Annie Letitia ("Lettie") (née MacLeod) Archibald.
Founded in 1973, the International Crane Foundation is headquartered in Baraboo, Wisconsin, on a 250-acre property that includes live crane exhibits with 15 crane species, a visitor center, breeding facilities, a research library and nature trails. The foundation works worldwide and in the US with local partners to raise and conserve cranes.
The poll involved over 35,000 adults in the United States. However acceptance of evolution varies per state. For example, the State of Vermont has the highest acceptance of evolution of any other State in the United States. 79% people in Vermont accept human evolution. While Mississippi with 43% has the lowest acceptance of evolution of any US ...
The whooping crane (Grus americana) is an endangered crane species, native to North America, [3] [1] named for its "whooping" calls. Along with the sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis), it is one of only two crane species native to North America, and it is also the tallest North American bird species. [3]
Young whooping cranes completing their first migration, from Wisconsin to Florida, following an ultralight aircraft from Operation Migration. Operation Migration was a nonprofit, charitable organization, which developed a method using ultralight aircraft to teach migration to captive-raised, precocial bird species such as Canada geese, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, and endangered whooping ...
The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.
Cranes Today's annual Middle East Cranes conference has been running since 2007, and is held in Dubai in association with a number of crane companies and associations. [5] The inaugural Cranes Asia conference is to take place in Singapore from 9–10 December 2009 [6] Cranes Today publishes its Fleet File every summer, usually in the June edition.
Lampson International is a crane manufacturer located in Kennewick, Washington established in 1946 [1] by Neil F. Lampson. ( Lampson Stadium in Kennewick is named after this same man.) Lampson operates one of the largest crane fleets [ 2 ] in the United States with a fleet including heavy lift cranes with capacities from 100 tons to 750 tons ...