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Elevate Nebraska

Campaign Update: ELEVATE / The Campaign for Audubon Nebraska

$35.7 million raised!

By Melissa Amarawardana

October 10, 2023

Part of a comprehensive $750 million national campaign, Elevate Nebraska is a call to action to protect birds, and in so doing, to protect our way of life and the landscapes we love across our state. We developed investment plans for five areas of our work:

  1. Capital Expansion at our Centers
  2. Statewide Programs
  3. Working Lands Programs
  4. Platte River Initiative
  5. Legacy Gifts
 

Our statewide programs include funding for conservation and stewardship, education programs, the Platte River Initiative, and Working Lands programs.

What we’ve done so far...

Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center

Funding and implementing a deferred maintenance plan, including:

  • Habitat building completed
  • Outdoor trail accessible bathroom • New roof on the visitor’s center
  • Accessible entrances
  • Pathway and parking lot lighting installed
  • and 310 acres purchased!

Rowe Sanctuary

  • Visitor’s center renovation and construction begins in October
  • New crane and river exhibits designed
  • Donald and Lorena Meier Native Plants Restoration Program

Statewide Programs

Four new full-time positions to support research and conservation programs:

  • Platte River Initiative Manager, Melissa Mosier
  • Avian Biologist, Stephen Brenner
  • Range Ecologist, Bill Sellers
  • Great Plains Director of Conservation, covering Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota

By Melissa Amarawardana

October 10, 2023

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