Game and Parks Field Office Set to Establish Wildlife Habitat

If Katherine Crawley has her way, wildlife in the area will flourish under her work.

Since May, Crawley, a wildlife biologist with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, has been introducing herself to landowners in the southern Panhandle, out of a new Game and Parks field office in Sidney.

Her mission: to help landowners provide or improve wildlife habitat from Scottsbluff, over to Garden County and points south of that line.

While she can work with different sorts of wildlife projects, Crawley's position rose mainly, and focuses on, a state initiative that looks to increase opportunitie...