Thanks to a settlement negotiated by the Golden Gate Audubon Society and other Bay Area Audubon chapters, operators of a controversial wind farm in Northern California will be substantially upgrading their facility in the coming years. The hope is that the modern turbines will present far less of a danger to birds than the older models currently on site.
By Garrison Frost
August 29, 2011
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.