 While ranchers maintain ponds for their livestock, Ricketts says cranes and other wild species also benefit from their work. During drought, spots like farm ponds and big reservoirs and rivers and things like that became much more important as we saw other types of wetlands dry out. So that's one way that a lot of our agricultural producers are contributing to migratory birds, not just whooping cranes, but lots of different migratory birds by providing that aquatic habitat for