Whoops...

It is with some difficulty that we hold back the tears when we realize the tragic bravery of Josephine. Her cause is no doubt a lost one, but her efforts are truly heroic, for good old Josephine (our favorite whooping crane) has tried to make another go of it.

With the warmth and companionship of her husband, Crip, she is guarding two shine white eggs--the embodied hopes of the world's remaining 28 whooping cranes. But Josephine, oh Josephine, beware the avaricious owl and the rapacious rats who murdered your babe last year. Let your keepers continue their 24 hour guard, let them burn the floodlights brightly, and let them keep the ditch around your cage filled with rat poison.