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Region : Nebraska
City : Chadron
Address : 1211 West 10th P.O. Box 600 Alliance, NE 69301 United States
Language : English

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    Kansas News Service"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"BARTON COUNTY — Pull off Kansas 156 in Barton County during a wet year, and it might feel like you took a wrong turn into Florida."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"This\n part of central Kansas is home to the largest interior wetlands in the \ncountry: Cheyenne Bottoms. It can hold nearly 10 billion gallons of \nwater."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"But after months of intense drought, the amount of water in these wetlands today likely couldn’t fill a Dixie cup."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"“We\n are 100% dry. There’s no water on the property,” Cheyenne Bottoms’ \nwildlife area manager Jason Wagner said. “This year is kind of the \nperfect storm.”"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"One of the driest summers on record and months of \nrelentless heat have transformed this oasis on the plains into an empty \nbasin. An endless vista of dry, cracking dirt stretches out where open \nwater once rippled toward the horizon. It’s been that way since June."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"That’s especially bad news for the hundreds of thousands of birds \nthat depend on the wetlands as a vital stopover point during their \nannual migration. Wagner estimates that 750,000 migrating birds stop at \nCheyenne Bottoms during an average fall. In the past couple of years, \nthat total has been over 1 million."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"This year, it’s basically zero."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"“Our bird numbers are nothing,” Wagner said. “Most of them aren’t even stopping because there’s nothing for them to stop for.”"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"That\n means the birds — some of which travel thousands of miles along the \nCentral Flyway from as far north as the Arctic Circle down to South \nAmerica — have to keep flying farther in search of a place to rest."}},{"type":"image","data":{"url":"https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2022/11/1667578387587.png","caption":"The photo on the left shows Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands filled with water in 2017. The photo on the right shows the Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands dried out by the drought this year. ","withBorder":false,"withBackground":false,"stretched":false}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"The wetlands normally provide a rare concentration of hard-to-find \nhabitats that offer shallow water, protection from predators and a \nbuffet of aquatic plants, bugs and fish. In a year with such widespread \ndrought, finding another spot that gives the birds what they need to \ncomplete their journey won’t be easy."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"To the north, the Platte River — another vital stopover point for birds on the Central Flyway — has completely dried up in parts of central and western Nebraska. To the south, drought covers every inch of Oklahoma. It’s a similar story for birds traveling along the Pacific Flyway as drought dries up wetlands and wildlife refuges across California."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Traveling\n thousands of miles during migration is already physically straining for\n birds in a good year. So when one of the prime refueling spots suddenly\n gets pulled out from under them, it could be a matter of life and \ndeath."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Alice Boyle, a migratory bird ecologist with Kansas State \nUniversity, compares it to an ultramarathon runner who’s approaching a \nrest station along their route where they expect to be handed a cup of \nwater or a banana. But when the runner arrives, there’s nobody there."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"“They’re\n going to try to keep running and go to the next one,” Boyle said. “But \nnot all of them are going to make it to that next one.”"}},{"type":"image","data":{"url":"https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2022/11/1667578495062.png","caption":"This aerial photo shows how some of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes look when they're filled with water. This fall, less than 30 of the refuge's 5,500 wetland acres still have water. Bill Johnson / University of Kansas","withBorder":false,"withBackground":false,"stretched":false}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"But hardly any of Quivira’s wetland habitat has survived this year’s drought either."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"“Things\n are dry,” Quivira manager Mike Oldham said. “We have at least a small \namount of water, but it’s really not enough for migration.”"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Right \nnow, Oldham said, less than 30 of Quivira’s acres have any water — \nthat’s around 0.5% of the refuge’s 5,500 acres that would be covered in \nwater during a good year."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Normally, the corridor of central Kansas\n wetlands would have hundreds of thousands of birds migrate through — \neverything from snow geese and pelicans to blue-winged teal and wigeon \nducks to shorebirds like sandpipers and plovers. It also provides refuge\n for critically endangered whooping cranes, a species whose total worldwide population numbers in the hundreds."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"In\n past years, upward of 30,000 sandhill cranes would fill Quivira’s skies\n on a given morning during fall migration. This year, Oldham said, only a\n few dozen cranes have landed there. And the ones that stop aren’t \nlingering for long."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"“Their choice is: Do I land for the night, \nrest up on the dry wetland bed and try to stay away from the coyotes
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