Michael Forsberg’s Into Whooperland Lecture

June 6, 2025

Mike presents his talk, Into Whooperland: A Photographer’s Journey with Whooping Cranes, on June 6th, 2025, at 7:00pm at the WYO Theatre - Performing Arts and Education Center in Sheridan. A book signing follows the lecture. This presentation is in partnership with the The Brinton Museum and Bighorn Audubon as part of The Birds of the Rocky Mountain Region II art show now being exhibited at The Brinton. A book signing will also take place at The Brinton on June 7th at 11:00am.

These events are free and open to the public. 
 

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About Michael Forsberg 

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Into Whooperland: A Photographer's Journey with the Rarest Crane in the World

"I've spent the last five years camera-in-hand exploring the natural history of whooping cranes across the continent, meeting people that love them, and discovering how these tall, magnificent and rarest of cranes are navigating our 21st century world. In this multimedia presentation, I'll take you on a wild, wonderful, and sometimes heartbreaking journey from their wintering grounds along the Texas Gulf Coast to their remote nesting grounds in northern Canada, and on migration through the heart of the Great Plains. I hope you'll join me."

Forsberg is a Nebraskan whose 30-year career as a photographer and conservationist has been dedicated to wildlife and conservation stories in North America's Great Plains, once one of the greatest grassland ecosystems on Earth. His images have been featured in publications including Audubon, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy, and Sierra magazines. His fine art prints are in public and private collections, and his solo exhibitions have traveled nationwide.

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In 2011, Forsberg co-founded Platte Basin Timelapse (PBT) in partnership with UNL and Michael Farrell Photography and Fine Art. Today, it operates as a conservation storytelling project to inform scientific research, build educational content, and tell stories of a Great Plains watershed in motion. A documentary film for PBS, titled Follow the Water, based on the project and Mike's traverse across the Platte Basin watershed, was released on PBS nationally in 2019. Forsberg serves as faculty at UNL and is a Fellow with the Center for Great Plains Studies and the Daugherty Water for Food Institute.