Wind farms considering detection systems to prevent bird deaths
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 16:36
in Biology & Nature
Adding bird detection systems could protect wind farms from litigation in case of deaths of threatened species.MOJAVE — Just before daybreak, a group of naturalists don parkas to blunt the frosty wind blowing down a narrow canyon in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles. They mount spotting scopes and cameras on tripods, and wait.