Luseland hopes for return of whooping cranes

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Vern Finley likely shot the last two whooping cranes that nested in the large alkali sloughs near Luseland. An old photograph from 1922 shows the two dead birds, already endangered across North America, held up by their necks and two young girls holding the wing tips. Finley, who shot the cranes with a friend, only told his family about the birds a few years before he died. Even in 1922, farmers in the area were irate with Finley and his hunting partner