A joint report from the Ventana Wildlife Society and the Stanford Solar and Wind Energy Project says that smaller, community wind energy projects can be done in Monterey County without hurting the California Condor. The findings isolate a specific area -- a stretch of the Salinas Valley between Gonzales and King City -- that should pose little or no danger to the endangered bird.
By Garrison Frost
October 27, 2009
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.