Golden eagles, with 7-foot wingspans, are doubly vulnerable – to the shifting climate and to the wind energy promoted as a solution to that warming world.
The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West’s most spectacular predators the golden eagle as the species teeters on the edge of decline. Ground zero in the conflict is Wyoming, a stronghold for golden eagles that soar on 7-foot (2-meter) wings…
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