All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a storm for the ages is blasting ashore on mexicos west coast tonight. Hurricane patricia has the strongest sustained winds ever recorded in this part of the world, and it spent in the day in a slowmotion assault on the mainland. Sirens blared and lights flashed as police and fire units combed Puerto Vallarta this morning, urging people to flee the popular Mexican Pacific beach resort. The storm burst to life tuesday and by last night, it to
News. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a storm for the ages is blasting ashore on mexicos west coast tonight. Hurricane patricia has the strongest sustained winds ever recorded in this part of the world, and it spent in the day in a slowmotion assault on the mainland. Sirens blared and lights flashed as police and fire units combed Puerto Vallarta this morning, urging people to flee the popular Mexican Pacific beach resort. The storm burst to life tuesday and by last night,
Besides the Altamont Pass and California, Wyoming is considered the other major destination of eagles where their carcasses have been found on a regular basis at the base of wind turbine towers in the United States, Smallwood said. The first eagle carcass Smallwood found was in a ravine in the Altamont Pass on his initial trip in 1999. That eagle was electrocuted by a power pole that connected with a field of turbines. “The feathers were burned and frizzled on the ends,” he said. “Eagles are big birds, and I thought, ‘What a waste.’”
Ecologist Shawn Smallwood has made secretive trips to Wyoming to collect data and provide to law enforcement information on eagles and other birds cut down by turbines. He said the wind industry turned on him because he’s “not a team player.”