Save Our Sandhill Cranes (SOS Cranes) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining open space habitat and the conservation of the California Central Valley's Sandhill crane populations through education, outreach, and community activism. Of particular concern to SOS Cranes are the threats to the remaining suitable winter habitats in the Central Valley of California. Pending urban development and the shift from corn and rice production to vineyards is likely to dramatically diminish what little remains of the winter habitat of the migratory Lesser and Greater Sandhill Cranes in this region. The Greater Sandhill Crane, which is a state listed threatened species, exhibit a high degree of loyalty to its specific wintering grounds, and any disturbance there will result in them being uprooted. If we lose the present population, it is highly unlikely that Sandhill Cranes from another location and population will come and take their place. The Lesser Sandhill Cranes constiture two smaller subspecies of the Sandhill Crane and are subject to the same threats of habitat loss as the Greater Sandhill crane.

SOS Cranes on KXJZ-FM

On October 28, 2008 Save Our Sandhill Cranes was interviewed by Jeffry Callison on the KXJZ program "Insight."   Capital Public Radio has an archive of many of their programs.  This program can be accessed at http://www.capradio.org/programs/insight/default.aspx?showid=5402