eagles | KCET
eagles
KL Featured Category
-
citizen science
Earth Focus
Inland Empire Bald Eagle Count Needs Volunteers
Post date:No experience needed: just warm clothes, binoculars, and an hour or more to spare.
-
commentary
Redefine
Environmental News You Didn't Hear in 2015
Post date:Sage grouse politics, a performance review for the USFWS, and other stories that should have been big news in 2015 -- but weren't.
-
birds
Redefine
Veterinary Drugs Hurting NorCal Turkey Vultures
Post date:Turkey vultures are turning up comatose in wildlife clinics, and a widely used euthanasia drug seems to be the culprit.
-
Redefine
Conservationists Sue Feds Over Wind Turbine Eagle Rule
Post date:A group of individual conservationists and a national bird protection organization have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
-
Redefine
San Diego County Solar Project to Proceed Based On Illegal Science
Post date:San Diego County is working on approval of 1,490 acres of solar projects near the town of Boulevard based in part on wildlife studies performed illegally by a biologist later convicted in Federal court for related offenses.
-
Redefine
SDG&E, Montana Wind Company in Flap Over Eagles
Post date:SDG&E says it's backing out of a $285 million deal because the operator of the 189-megawatt Rim Rock wind facility near Cut Bank, Montana failed to live up to a number of terms in the companies' agreement, mainly having to do with wildlife protection. ...
-
usfws
Redefine
First Wind Turbine Eagle Take Permit May Come To Solano County
Post date:The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is looking for public comment on a proposal to allow a NorCal wind turbine installation to kill an eagle each year on average over a period of five years, in what may turn out to be the first permit of its kind grante...
-
Altamont Pass
Redefine
California Leads Nation in Wind Turbine Eagle Deaths
Post date:At least 27 golden eagles perished at 13 California wind turbine facilities between 1997 and June 2012, with a startling rise in reported mortalities in 2011. That's not including the eagle killing machines at Altamont Pass.
-
Alameda County
Redefine
CA Wind Facilities Want Permits That Will Allow Them to Harm Eagles
Post date:Four California-based wind power facilities have applied to the federal government for permits to harm eagles, ReWire has learned.
-
brightsource energy
Redefine
Feds Weigh in on Solar Power Tower Threat to Birds
Post date:The concerns expressed in the letter may have serious ramifications for other BrightSource projects.
-
brightsource energy
Redefine
Agency Staff: 'Hidden Hills Solar Will Kill Eagles'
Post date:The project will "almost certainly kill or injure" eagles and other special status bird species.
-
Redefine
Why Isn't the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Protecting Eagles?
Post date:If FWS really wanted to get "aggressive" in enforcing the provisions of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act that protect eagles, it would send a message not by way of a press release, but by way of the local U.S. Attorney.
-
wind power
Redefine
Feds Ask For Help in Wind Turbine Eagle Deaths
Post date:The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has asked the public for help in gathering information on eagle mortality at wind turbines.
-
Redefine
Greens, Wind Industry Want To Craft New Eagle Rules
Post date:Mainstream greens and wind industry groups ask for special input as eagle protection rules are rewritten.
-
commentary
Redefine
Eagles May be Latest Casualty of Renewables Policy
Post date:As concern grows over the toll industrial wind turbines take on California's largest birds, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to change the permitting system -- and it may not be for the better.