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  • WWP, CBD and 3 Tribes fight Spring Valley Wind Project

    Ken Cole

    Suit Filed to Protect One of Nevada’s Largest Bat Roosts, National Park For immediate release – January 25, 2011 Contacts: Jon Marvel, Executive Director Western Watersheds Project, 208.788.2290 Rob Mrowka, Center for Biological Diversity, 702.249.5821 LAS VEGAS, Nev – Two conservation groups and three Indian Tribes filed suit today to protect a pristine mountain valley…

  • Bat deaths from Wind Turbines

    Brian Ertz

    “Barotrauma” University of Calgary researchers provide answers to the mysterious deaths of bats and wind turbine facilities in southern Alberta, Canada. [vodpod id=Video.2305131&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Barotrauma- Bat deaths from Wind Turbines Barotrauma – Wikipedia.org Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between an air space inside or beside the body and…

  • Oregon Field Guide — Wind and Bats

    Ken Cole

    17,000 dead bats/year in Oregon before a proposed 15-fold increase in wind energy. The drumbeat behind the “green energy” movement is beating louder for wind farms across the landscape, especially on public lands. At the rate that things are going there may be huge effects on bats and birds of many types. Oregon Field Guide…

  • Scientists Find Successful Way To Reduce Bat Deaths At Wind Turbines

    Ralph Maughan

    Solution is to restrain blades from turning at all during low wind periods- Scientists Find Successful Way To Reduce Bat Deaths At Wind Turbines. ScienceDaily

  • Cause of the great bat die-off found. It's a fungus

    Ralph Maughan

    Bat White-Nose syndrome is caused by a fungus- Bat Disease Fungus Identified. By Henry Fountain. New York TImes.

  • Study reveals details about Yellowstone, Teton bats

    Ralph Maughan

    Study reveals details about Yellowstone, Teton bats. By Mark Stark. Billings Gazette.

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