There are a few organizations, however, that are trying to preserve the habitat and even create new ones.  For example, there is the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust Inc.  This organization preserves the habitat of the cranes with research and land grants.  They try to stop the habitats from being developed, and try to create new habitats.  

    Other organizations are trying to create new habitats as migration stopovers in a few ways.  Quite a few of these organizations are trying to create artificial sandbars, like the type the cranes nest on.  Simple conservation of a plains area is not enough, because whooping cranes nest on sandbars for fear of predators.

    Another tactic being used by these habitat restorers.  Many times the destruction of the cranes’ habitat is caused by the growth of vegetation over the sandbars.  This can only be prevented by restoring the inflow cycle of the river, so all vegetation is killed off when the water is high.  A way that this can be simulated using human methods is controlled burning.  Although this method is costly and risky, it is usually much more effective than pulling up the vegetation.