Portland energy company will breed California condors to replace any birds killed by turbine blades
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
Posted Mar 04, 2021
A California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) in flight, Garrapata Sate Park, California, in 2014. (Cultura/Zuma Press/TNS) TNS
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By Louis Sahagun/Los Angeles Times/TNS
ROSAMOND, Calif. They are among the top goals of California environmentalists: preserving endangered species and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy.
Yet in the blustery skies above Kern County’s Tehachapi Mountains where towering wind turbines churn with hypnotic rhythm renewable energy and wildlife preservation appear to be headed for a disastrous collision.
After a decadeslong effort to rescue the California condor from the brink of extinction, government officials say the critically endangered vultures are now at risk of being killed by spinning turbine blades.
ROSAMOND, Calif.
They are among the top goals of California environmentalists: preserving endangered species and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy.
Yet in the blustery skies above Kern County’s Tehachapi Mountains where towering wind turbines churn with hypnotic rhythm renewable energy and wildlife preservation appear to be headed for a disastrous collision.
California condors huddle around a watering hole in the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur in 2017.
(Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)
After a decades-long effort to rescue the California condor from the brink of extinction, government officials say the critically endangered vultures are now at risk of being killed by spinning turbine blades.
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