When floodwater blocked the roads, hay arrived by helicopter — video credits
Video and original interview: Travis Williams / Nebraska National Guard. Photograph: Lisa Crawford / Nebraska National Guard. Sources via DVIDS.
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Original sources and useful links
- Operation Prairie Hay Drop — Nebraska National Guard’s 2019 flood-response archive — Nebraska National Guard
- Operation Prairie Hay Drop delivers relief to Nebraska ranchers — footage and Wende Settles interview — Nebraska National Guard / Travis Williams
- Operation Prairie Hay Drop, March 20, 2019 — Nebraska National Guard / Lisa Crawford
- Editorial reuse and source-credit policy — DVIDS