Nebraska's beautiful new sesquicentennial stamp far surpasses the crummy one issued for its centennial

Each spring, about 600,000 Sandhill Cranes — 80% of that bird's population — converge on the
Platte River Valley in Nebraska. It's the greatest wildlife spectacle in North America and nature
lovers from all over the world come to see it.

The description below is from the US Postal Service, which decided that Johnny Carson would make the cut of famous Nebraskans but Dick Cavett wouldn't:

     A new stamp from the U.S. Postal Service® celebrates the 150th anniversary of Nebraska statehood. Nebraska was admitted to the union on March 1, 1867.
     The photograph on this stamp was taken on the banks of the Platte River as sandhill cranes flew low overhead at sunset. At the onset of spring, half a million of these ancient birds return to the river during their annual migration, a spectacle unique to Nebraska. After a day spent feeding in fields nearby, they are seen here scouting for sandbars that provide nighttime roosts safe from riverbank predators. Nebraska photographer Michael Forsberg took the photograph sometime around the year 2000.
     “Nebraska” is derived from the Otoe and Omaha peoples’ phrase meaning “flat water” and “flat river.” The description originally referred to the wide, shallow river that flows eastward into the Missouri River, which serves as Nebraska’s eastern boundary. On early maps, French explorers labeled the river “Platte,” also meaning “flat.”
     Territorial Nebraska was part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the French land sale that nearly doubled U.S. territory. At the time, the territory of Nebraska included not only its present-day area but also portions of present-day Colorado, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana. Enormous buffalo herds on the plains had provided generations of sustenance to the Native American Pawnee people and many other area tribes. Decades after Lewis and Clark explored the newly purchased territory, the U.S. government still considered the land virtually useless—ironic in that Nebraska is now one of the nation’s agricultural giants, particularly in the production of beef, corn, and beans. Nicknamed the Cornhusker State, the 37th state admitted to the union also ranks 37th in population with almost 1.9 million residents.
     Famous Nebraskans include former President Gerald Ford, born in Omaha but raised in Michigan, and three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, a populist who helped shape the modern Democratic Party. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody mixed fact and myth in his thrilling Wild West show; his Scout’s Rest Ranch in North Platte is a state historical park. Other celebrated Nebraskans include show business icons Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, and Johnny Carson. Willa Cather’s novels, including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, masterfully capture Nebraska frontier life.
     Nebraska Statehood is being issued as a Forever® stamp. This Forever stamp will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.

The beautiful new stamp far outstrips the dull one issued to commemorate Nebraska's centennial. Among the criticisms in 1967 was that the cow pictured really did look like something from 1867.

Below: promotional video for NET's  documentary, Crane Song: