NEWS
Exciting News!!
Joel Sartore is scheduled to be our Keynote Speaker!
New: Just posted: Festival of the Cranes 2010
Photography Contest Rules & Deadlines
Just Posted- Artist Guidelines and Art Entry Information for the Art Tent- this is new, so please check it
The complete 2010 Festival of the Cranes
schedule &
everything you need to know will be available here!
We are working on the big and exciting new schedule now.
It's looking great, so please plan to attend.
We appreciate your participation!
FestivaloftheCranes.com
Our 2009 Festival of the Cranes was a great success!
Thank you for your participation!
Rare birds at the Refuge during the Festival were:
White-tailed kite and Aplomado Falcon.
Please see our main site for the regularly updated bird count.
2009 FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE is still available!
Tshirts, pins, mugs, magnets
On our Online Bosque Nature Store with secure online payment:
BOSQUE NATURE STORE FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE
Our List Status page will be working again this year,
This is a regularly updated page where you can see
if the events for which you wish to register are full or we still have space!
We now own the domain FESTIVALOFTHECRANES.COM
Please bookmark that address for the Festival of the Cranes.
The web address www.FriendsoftheBosque.org/crane
will remain working as well.
We want to thank the Visitors, participants, all of our woderful volunteers, the Festival co-ordinator, Robyn Harrison, and the Friends of the Bosque's treasured executive director, Leigh Ann Vradenburg for helping to make the 2009 Festival of the Cranes a fantastic success! We look forward to seeing you next year - November 16-21, 2010!
Thank you to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and those who work there with dedication and care, thank you to the city of Socorro for always strongly supporting this great Festival, and thank you to ALL the Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR for your caring and compassion for the birds and wildlife who rely on the refuge for their survival!
With all the popular workshops, tours and lectures and the Art and exhibitor tent, everyone seemed to love the Festival.
We hope you like our Festival web site which was donated to us by an ardent lover of the Refuge!