Where NOT to hastily site an Industrial-scale Wind Energy Project
Just north of Great Basin National Park, east of Ely in Eastern Nevada, lies a public landscape called Spring Valley.
Spring Valley is a miraculous place, renowned for its magnificent skies and as critical habitat for sagebrush obligate species such as sage grouse and [...]
Continue Reading →The Skunks and Badgers leave island with pelicans.
The plan to introduce skunks and badgers to an island in Eastern Idaho’s Blackfoot River Reservoir so that they would prey on pelican eggs has failed because the skunks and badgers have left the island.
Badgers, skunks to F&G: Thanks but no thanks to island plan.
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Will the petrocracy — and greens — keep Wyoming from realizing its windy potential?
Wind power is not a popular thing in Wyoming for some and very popular for others. It is very unpopular for advocates for sage grouse and other birds.
Wind resistance.
High Country News
Is this a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act?
After being told by the US Fish and Wildlife Service that their plan to oil the eggs of nesting pelicans amounted to an eradication program, the Idaho Fish and Game has proceeded to introduce skunks and badgers onto Gull Island in Blackfoot Reservoir to eat [...]
Continue Reading →Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals-
This finding really amazed me, but we certainly see it in some birds like ravens and crows. They are no “birdbrains.”
Bigger Not Necessarily Better, When It Comes to Brains. ScienceDaily
Continue Reading →Federal Law Enforcement’s Double Standard on Bird Deaths
Robert Bryce writes about the enormous disparity in federal law enforcement between a bird killed in a wastewater tank versus the increasing number of birds falling victim to Wind Energy.
Wind Turbines and Bird Kills – via Counterpunch :
When it comes to protecting America’s [...]
Continue Reading →Unfortunate side effect to poisoning effort was the loss of 43 bald eagles and many other birds.
Alaska’s Rat Island apparently rid of its namesake pest
By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers
Natural gas production is ugly for birds
Exxon-Mobil pleads guilty in bird case – Casper Star-Tribune
Exxon-Mobil Corp. has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Denver to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act in five states including Wyoming during the past five years, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Continue Reading →Rooks show there may be some truth to Aesop’s fable ‘The Crow and the Pitcher’ LA Times Blog
The Crow and the Pitcher is a fable ascribed [...]
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