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Along with 4.4 miles of new trails at Platte River State Park, mostly tailored to intermediate and advanced riders, are features that include stair-steps, drop-offs, a boardwalk, log rides, curved wall rides, numerous switchbacks, a launch pad, flat ramps, low-water crossings and table top ramps.
To help identify and direct conservation actions for trumpeter swans and their habitats, studies are critical to help us better understand where and when these birds move about the landscape.
At 2.3 miles, the Kearney Water Trail is undoubtedly one of the shortest in Nebraska. Despite that fact, it might also be one of the busiest.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has long promoted a 70-mile water trail on the Platte between Fremont and Plattsmouth. Under the Commission’s Venture Parks initiative, there are now new access points Schramm Park and Louisville state recreation areas,
The cost to clean up and repair damage to Nebraska state parks, wildlife management areas, the Cowboy Trail and fisheries caused by historic flooding in 2019 adds up to nearly $19 million.
I placed a camera trap along a game trail at Indian Cave State Park in 2017 hoping to capture a photograph of a mountain lion that had been spotted in the area. The camera captured her six times over three years, as well as 21 other wildlife species.