Only one car was parked in the famed North Platte River’s Gray Reef fishing access on a frigid day in early January. No trucks hauling trailers with drift boats lined up at the boat ramp.

GIBBON, Neb. (KOLN) - Sandhill cranes stir in the darkness on the Platte River, and at Rowe Sanctuary in Gibbon, people can view these Nebraska visitors at dusk or at dawn. Visitors register and ...