This and your work is so important. I'm trying to keep abreast of the wind farm project threatening GREATER PRAIRIE CHICKENS remaining in your state. Not sure I want to get you started on that. It's complex. You having to water down all your research and thoughts on that issue into a column seems impossible and a headache. I know you are at least doing what you can. A lot of VERY competent people at the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and even the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance I know are on it. Our population growth and concomitant development need limits somehow. Your beautiful bird and birds deserve it.
After being able to take a road trip to NE to see the Sand Hill Cranes a few years ago, I am more than sympathetic to getting the transmission lines underground, etc. It seems unconscionable that Audobon doesn't see the light...!
This and your work is so important. I'm trying to keep abreast of the wind farm project threatening GREATER PRAIRIE CHICKENS remaining in your state. Not sure I want to get you started on that. It's complex. You having to water down all your research and thoughts on that issue into a column seems impossible and a headache. I know you are at least doing what you can. A lot of VERY competent people at the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and even the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance I know are on it. Our population growth and concomitant development need limits somehow. Your beautiful bird and birds deserve it.
After being able to take a road trip to NE to see the Sand Hill Cranes a few years ago, I am more than sympathetic to getting the transmission lines underground, etc. It seems unconscionable that Audobon doesn't see the light...!
Yep. Following Helene and Milton, more people are noticing that underground cables really are better in extreme weather. (<https://www.eenews.net/articles/can-buried-power-lines-keep-the-lights-on-during-extreme-storms/>)
I enjoyed the Audubon birds and transmission line report on their black conservation app.