Silence of the lambs:US government authorized killing of endangered bighorns in path of wind project

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11. I saw them in west Texas my last visit, clustered on mesas standing above the valley floor.

A large dairy in one community I know well put them in and are happy that they will now be going off grid. They have thousands of acres of land and needed power for their walking sprinklers to grow fodder for their herds, run refrigerators for their milk, etc. I didn't see any cows near the bases of the turbines, but then most of these outfits have a lot of land for either beef cattle or dairy cows. They didn't report any problems there, but I'm talking about a lot of acreage

That is an area rich in wildlife but not rainfall, so these are all dry land farms and ranches. The locals were very happy to get the work fabricating the towers and transporting them. Those areas are virtually without people at this point, many homes sitting vacant as their owners left to the big city for work. Not because of foreclosures, since there were never many houses, no subdivisions, etc. But that was always the case there, and it's only increased as the younger generation no longer want to deal with drought, poor prices for their products, etc.