Bird mortality in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area California

Article Abstract:

Bird mortality is estimated as it can serve as a comparative baseline to assess the effectiveness of future mitigation measures and to assess potential impacts of other proposed wind farm projects. Precision of mortality estimates are improved by deploying technology to remotely detect collisions and by making wind turbine power output data available to researchers so that the number of fatalities can be related to the actual power output of the wind turbine since the last fatality search.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, California, Forecasts and trends, Mortality, Market trend/market analysis, Birds, Casualties

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Greater sage-grouse winter habitat selection and energy development

Article Abstract:

Winter habitat selection by female greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus uropasianus) is modeled to identify landscape features and assess the scale at which selection occurred. The spatially explicit model is used for identifying areas that have provided the best remaining habitat for wintering sage-grouse in the Powder River Basin (PRB) to mitigate impacts of energy development.

Behavior, Influence, Spatial behavior in animals, Animal spatial behavior, Habitat selection, Animal spatial behaviour

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Greater sage-grouse population response to energy development and habitat loss

Article Abstract:

A study is conducted to assess how coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) development and other landscape features influence trends in the number of male sage-grouse observed and persistence of leks in the Powder River Basin. Experimental data showed that the number of males observed on leks in CBNG declined more rapidly than leks outside CBNG fields.

Demographic aspects

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