"The Moon was But a Chin of Gold." It would seem Emily Dickinson was inspired by the moonrise at Great Sand Dunes National Park when she wrote that poem. In this special place, over 20,000 sandhill cranes spend their spring and fall in the San Luis Valley in Colorado. They feed in the grasslands and farm fields during the day, then return to wetlands each evening to roost at night. Photo by Patrick Myers, National Park Service.














