Stories

Caden Connelly explores the connections between conservation, agriculture, ecotourism, and environmental education in Namibia and Nebraska.

Larkin Powell’s impact on students through experiential learning.

The Eastern Cottonwood was officially made the state tree of Nebraska in 1972, the same year I moved to Lincoln at the age of 24.

Join along on a journey that reveals the beavers making a living throughout the Salt Creek Watershed of Wilderness Park.

The story of one of the best disc golf courses in the world and how it’s a sanctuary for wildlife and recreationists alike.

A photo story about Nebraska’s dark skies and the people and insects that depend on them.

A photo story that explores the creation and seasonal changes in the Hardin Hall prairie.

Nebraska Game and Parks renovates Lake Ogallala every 10-15 years to protect it from the carp invasion.

A natural history story about pronghorn along the North Platte River Valley.

Learn about the abnormal rain levels in Colorado and where they came from.

Learn about how conservation groups disk the Platte River to preserve habitat for cranes on their migration.

Learn more about the return of Native communities to buffalo and their uniquely deep relationship to one another.

Learn about the ecology and conservation of tallgrass prairie in Nebraska.

Learn about the relationships between people, place, and birds in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Join Carlee on a multi-media story exploring the pathways that exist between wild spaces around Lincoln, Nebraska.

A story about the Santee Sioux Nation and their resilience after the flood of 2019.

Teagan reflects on the time she has spent as a camper and counselor at Camp Kitaki.

Learn about how a nursery in Nebraska is growing tree seedlings for forest restoration projects in the Rocky Mountains.

A story and film about the wetlands found in the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Within every county of Nebraska there lies a wetland. Peel back the curtain to reveal their beauty and wonder.

Urban Wetlands are an ecosystem often underappreciated yet they are connected to our everyday lives. Explore a story and film about the wetlands found in Nebraska’s Urban centers.

A behind-the-scenes look into the Wetlands of Nebraska project featuring saline wetlands.

A behind-the-scenes look into the Wetlands of Nebraska project featuring riverine wetlands.

A behind-the-scenes look into the Wetlands of Nebraska project featuring playa wetlands.

Get to know Frank Shoemaker, a photographer and naturalist from the early 1900s.

Kara connects with Nebraska’s wildlife from Omaha to Lincoln.

The night sky is more important than you think.

Follow along as biologist Andy Caven counts Sandhill Cranes on the Platte River.

Visit one of Nebraska’s remnant tallgrass prairies – Nine-Mile Prairie through a short teaser trailer.

Discover one of PBT’s most iconic timelapse locations.

Get to know Loren Eiseley, an anthropologist and author with a deep connection to the Platte.

Seeing nature through the eyes of an artist during their time spent at Cedar Point Biological Station.

Remnants of a once vast grassland ecosystem are still a source of diversity, connection to place, and a source for research.

Explore publicly accessible places in the Platte Basin with Sarah.

Katelyn weaves together people, water, and corridors to create a new infrastructure project for Lincoln.

This Naturalist made a Guide to the Outside with the hope to connect urban dwellers to the nature in their own backyard.

The use of photgraphy to dive into the little world all around us, the worlds most people pass by.

The great Sandhills Crane migration reconnects a man with his soul and his late grandpa.

Finding solace and reconnecting with nature in an abnormal place.

A brief history of the Umoⁿhoⁿ people and their connection to the Lincoln area.

When times get hard, it doesn’t retreat; it tirelessly heals and nurtures us. We should be revering it, protecting it, and creating more of it.

Benjamin Vogt writes about his connection to nature during the Covid-19 pandemic

A father dives into his connection with nature and how he has shared that place with his daughters.

Dave Showalter describes his reconnection with nature through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Burk Knowlton writes about his experience with nature during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Emily Levine writes poetry about her experience with nature during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dat Ha writes about his experience with nature during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ashley reflects on the ways photography has connected her with the outdoors during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Elsie Stormberg writes about her experience with nature during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ella Bishop-Heil writes about her connection with nature during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Personal narrative of connection with the outdoors and things that have helped forge this bond.

Learn what it means to truly be outside, falling into the rhythm of nature and being mindful of the world around.

Read how person relied on nature to keep pace and remind them of the resiliency of the world during the times on COVID-19.

Wildcat Hills: unlike anywhere else in Nebraska.

A personal exploration of Nine-Mile Prairie.

There are still wild places left in Lancaster County.

Sarah Sortum recaps a day of grassland management on her families ranch.

Aaron Beckman shares the various aspects of his life in Nebraska.

An interpretive, personal boots-on-the-ground observational study of the state of Nebraska and its biologically unique landscapes.

A natural history story about trumpeter swans in the Nebraska Sandhills.

Relive the past and present narrative of the Bohemian Alps landscape through large format photography and written word.

Take a look into the annual crane season in Lewellen and Garden County, Nebraska.

Time and the River is a commissioned multimedia chamber music piece composed by Kurt Knecht, and image design by Platte Basin Timelapse.

Learn about the benefits that low intensity fire has on the landscape of western Nebraska.

When flooding occurs across a state, how does the landscape react, and how do the people and wildlife persevere? Learn about the devasting flood of 2019 in Nebraska.

A giant aquatic virus, an unusual environment, and the journey of discovery.

Learn about current water conservation efforts in the Platte Basin environments and community.

This project places musicians in the elements of nature and gives them freedom to translate whatever they are encompassed by into song.

An attempt to engender an elusive place not readily known – at once both heartfelt & heartbroken.
 

Dina Barta, a conservation officer, shares her life and experience in her field.

A short lyrical video about greater sage-grouse.

Listen along to Homer’s story about ranching and what it means to him.

This project places musicians in the elements of nature and gives them freedom to translate whatever they are encompassed by into song.

An experience in high school with planting a prairie garden turned Evan into a lifelong steward of prairies.

Ranchers are reintroducing fire to the Nebraska Sandhills.

A story and film about the American dipper.

Nicole Pauley reflects on her research in the Central Platte River Valley and the effect of borrow pits on the ecosystem.

Learn about how PBT is using timelapse photography to show changes in the weather.

This project places musicians in the elements of nature and gives them freedom to translate whatever they are encompassed by into song.

Michaela reflects on her time at Platte Basin Timelapse.

Listen along as Martha Shulski describes why climate science is important.

Morgan creates personal and generational connections with the Platte Basin through narrative work.

Research on grassland birds in the Central Platte River Valley.

Open prairie gives rise to creativity. It has inspired many to write poetic pieces to describe their feelings. Listen as a Willa Cather poem is reborn through video and music.

Morgan speaks about her first time witnessing the Sandhill Crane Migration.

Learn if the eclipse had an influence on wildlife.

Grant Reiner attempts to capture scavengers in action at Marsh Wren Management Area.

A short film about UNL Outdoor Adventure students leadership training backpacking trip.

Explore how a student at UNL defined a sense of place while looking through thousands of timelapse camera imagery.

Saline wetlands are one of most endangered ecosystems and a small beetle is at the heart of its conservation. Yet these places are more than just one species.

Urban agriculture has become an increasingly popular hobby and necessity for some individuals.

The pairing of audio to time-lapse can give a more informative aspect to life in the Platte Basin.

If only each of us could strive to find our place within the circle, to honor and respect each other as creatures made mostly of water, as are “all of our relations.”

See how water changes over time in the Sandhills of Nebraska through the use of historical aerial imagery and GIS programs.

The use of time-lapse camera reveals never-before-seen swan behavior.

Check out the entertaining adventures of some PBTers as they attempt to reach Grays Peak.

Our timelapse cameras captured the solar eclipse!

Stream flow gauges and timelapse technology tell the visual story of flow rates.

Learn how sandhill crane migration is impacted by climate change.

A swath of freezing rain was coming to glaze the central United States in a sheet of ice. The storm even earned itself a name- Jupiter.

Learn to appreciate nature in a new way.

A slow motion video of prairie chickens on a lek.

Ethan talks about his first experience in a blind he made himself.

Simon reflects of his research experiences in the Platte Basin and beyond.

Sarah Sortum runs a family-operated cattle ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska while preserving the beauty of the prairie.

Ted LeGrange reflects on his passion for wetlands, conservation, and the challenges of balancing development with preservation.

Investigate the meaning of life using science and art.

Have you ever stopped and really looked at the nature that surrounds you?

Conservationists in Nebraska are actively restoring prairie ecosystems that have been lost to agriculture, using diverse local seeds.

Learn of what Nebraska was before highways and straight lines.

The Wind River Reservation depends on snowpack as a water supply. What happens if drought hits?

Read about how one man uses his free time researching animals that are often overlooked.

A story about a cattle drive in the Nebraska Sandhills.

A new program for sharing Nebraska’s groundwater may help both farmers and endangered species.

Reverend Kim Morrow follows her passion — facilitating the faith community’s response to climate change.

Chad Gideon and his family bought property on the Platte River to ensure their continued access to hunting and fishing.

Travel through the Rocky Mountains in the fall.

Travel across several water basins in North America with Cristina!

Carlee describes her first field outing on the job.

Navigating recreation while having fun but remaining mindful of conservation.

A video showing a timelapse camera being installed.

Unusually high water levels in the Platte River have scoured vegetation, created habitat, and demonstrated the power of nature.

Don Welsch shares how the Platte River has influenced his poetry.

Personal narrative about the significance of water and Dan Snow’s their personal connection to it.

Dive into the history of two different dams with a very similar story.

Navigating distribution of water resources across three states using adaptive management.

Learn about Renee Sans Souci’s connection to water through teachings she gained from her family’s Omaha traditions.

Learn about the conservation efforts for the greenback cutthroat trout in the Colorado River Basin.

Sierra recounts her eventful summer with the sandhill cranes.

Emma Brinley Buckley writes about what it takes to manage our water resources in the Platte Basin.

Early morning light in Colorado reveals the subtle beauty of a place and its interconnect history.

See how much rain levels can effect the city of Lincoln, NE.

Learn about an excursion along the Platte River in the late 1800s.

Learn about crane viewing tourism along the Central Platte River.

A first hand account of bird observations in the Sandhills.

Learn about prairie restoration along the Central Platte River.

Sarah Sortum writes about prescribed burning on their ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Few modern species can lay claim to older origins than the sandhill crane.

Learn about efforts to conserve habitat for endangered Whooping Cranes along the Platte River.

Learn about the impact that bridges have had on the Platte River.

Learn about the history of Fort Kearney.

A community works to conserve wildlife habitat along the central Platte River in Nebraska.

Learn about the history of irrigation in western Nebraska.

Learn about groundwater irrigation along the central Platte River.

Discover the biodiversity of wet meadows along the Platte River.

Learn about the ecological impact of ice jams on the Platte River.

Learn about different methods of irrigation along the North Platte River.

Follow along with a group of researchers as they search for the elusive river otter along the Elkhorn River of Nebraska.

Explore the Platte River by sorting and searching flow rates recorded throughout the state.

Learn about how communities along the Platte River obtain their water.

Phantom Canyon, a small preserve nestled into the land where the mountains meet the plains, in the Laramie Foothills of northern Colorado.

Journey alonside Emma on her trip to Central Platte and checking the sondes.

Learn about the history of Lake McConaughy.

Michael Farrell shows the epic beauty of the Platte Basin through an older lens.

Mariah takes us on a walk through Wilderness Park.

Harvesting sugar beets in Nebraska is everything but dry.

Journey with Mike as he photographs Interior Least Terns.

Follow a snowflake from the Colorado Rockies through Wyoming dams and reservoirs to fields in the Nebraska panhandle.

Learn about a partnership between industry and biologist to protect endangered birds.

A reflection upon a trip through the Sandhills.

Macroinvertebrates are a diverse and important part of the Platte River supporting hundreds of wildlife.

Explore Nine Mile Prairie through the lens of Michael Farrell.

Earlier this summer I drove a 1,756 mile loop up, down and around the edges of a tilted tabletop in the heart of North America. For me, this geography is home.

Learn about the conservation efforts by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to restore native Greenback Trout to thier historic watershed.

This study relates to the relationship between invasive plants and sandhill crane roosting habitat in south-central Nebraska during spring migration.

Follow Ariana on a road trip through the northern Great Plains while learning about the history of the land.

Why it is important to preserve our natural landscapes in a world that is constantly changing?

Every year in late spring and early summer, Rocky Mountain snowmelt travels downstream where it intercepts a series of dams, reservoirs, and diversions.

Follow the PBT Team as they service our timelapse cameras in the mountains.

Peter Stegen shares some beautiful moments in Nebraska’s Sandhills.

Take a behind the scenes look into the first three years of timelapse technology and ideas.

Lake Agnes is the location for PBT’s highest elevation time-lapse camera. It is also the beginning of the Platte River’s story.

Emma talks about her experience here in Nebraska and with PBT.

Matan Gill shares his experience and passion concerning water conservation.

The PBT team explored nature’s greatest engineers’ creation up in the North Platte River of Wyoming.

Follow along as we see the South Platte River change over time do to flooding.

A timelapse camera captures the dynamic nature of a braided river and almost falls headfirst into the water.

Watch a short film about conservation efforts along the Central Platte River.

Rushing out of Kortes Dam, fluctuating currents run through the rugged Seminoe Mountains and out into the arid Wyoming plains until the North Platte River’s waters reach Pathfinder Reservoir.

Follow along with researchers from the University of Nebraska as they study archaelogy in the Sandhills.

Along Little Salt Creek below Interstate I-80 there is a diversity of wildlife that goes unnoticed.

A precise amount of water flowing out of Wyoming is allocated for irrigation in Nebraska. How is it monitored?

See how the changing seasons through the eyes of a windmill.

Learn about the Sandhill Crane Migration and view them foraging in a wet meadow.

Travel to the Central Platte to see the magnificent 2013 Sandhill Crane migration.