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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 Facebook Share 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 h...

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 bri...

After being rescued from the brink of extinction, endangered California condors now face the threat of being killed by wind turbines.

Energy company to breed endangered California condors to replace birds killed by turbine blades Louis Sahagún © (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Dusk settles over power-generating wind turbines near the Tehachapi Mountains in Rosamond. Federal wildlife officials are allowing Manzana, a private wind energy company, to provide funding to breed critically endangered California condors to replace any killed by its turbines. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) They are among the top goals of California environmentalists: preserving endangered species and replacing fossil fuels...