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DISCLAIMER This is not a scientific document, but a limited document with the intent to inform and
share with our citizen legislators and the average person to what is happening to our mountains and wildlife habitat concerning the development of industrial wind.
First Edition: December 2013 Ninth Printing: 100 Booklets 1400 Booklets Printed as of April 1, 2014 For Information Contact Us at: Fred Person and Dhyan Nirmegh 1509 Shaker Hill Road Starksboro, Vermont 05487 Available Free PDF: Email [email protected] If you are interested in supporting the printing of more copies of this booklet you may send donations to the non-‐profit organization, Vermonters for a Clean Environment, please write in
Vermonters for A Clean Environment, Inc. 789 Baker Brook Road Danby, VT 05739
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NOT SO GREEN MOUNTAINS
The mountains are integral to our identity as the Green Mountain State, and provide us
with clean air and water and healthy wildlife populations. This desecration, in the name of
private wild land in the state. Throughout New England and Cape Cod, the allure of wind power threatens to destroy environmentally sensitive landscapes.
Erecting those turbines along more than three miles of ridgeline requires building roads with segments of the ridgeline road itself nearly half as wide as one of Vehighways in places where the travel lanes are now made by bear, moose, bobcat and deer.
Ironically, mecologically disastrous project. Apparently, they are unwilling
the landscape that has made us who we are. The pursuit of large-‐scale, ridgeline wind power in Vermont represents a terrible error
of vision and planning and misunderstanding of what a responsible society must do to slow the warming of our planet. It also represents a profound failure to understand the value of our landscape to our souls and our economic future in Vermont.
The New York Times Opinion Not So Green Mountains Steve Wright Sept. 28, 2011
Northeast Song Bird Winter Wren in Hobblebush
Photo by Roger Irwin
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NO NATURAL SUBSTITUTES FOR BATS Prior to the appearance of the invasive fungal disease, white-‐nose syndrome, bat
biologists viewed wind energy as the most potent threat that bats had ever faced. The tree bats were believed to be the ones in trouble. Dramatic bat mortality events were documented at wind energy sites along forested ridges in various locations in the eastern U.S.; notably Virginia and West Virginia. The majority of dead bats were hoary bats. Red bats and silver-‐haired bats were also vulnerable to the wind energy operations. Wind turbines also kill cave bats, particularly little brown bats and tri-‐colored bats.
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syndrome and wind energy. The tree bats do not get white-‐nose syndrome, but are likely being badly affected by wind energy. Most of the cave bats are unaffected by wind energy, but because their numbers are now so low, any losses from any additional cause, such as wind turbine operations, could be extremely significant to the population as a whole. In effect, an entire suite of mammals is now at great risk, both in Vermont, and in the eastern United States, because of these dual threats.
The Center for Biological Diversity asks the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources to take a broader view of bat conservation than simply issuing take permits for listed species. The state of Vermont is in jeopardy of losing the ecological services of its primary night-‐flying insectivores. Essentially, there are no natural substitutes for bats. Their precarious status must
Scientists have estimated that the value of bats to American agriculture is between $3.7 billion and $53 billion per year. Bats eat thousands of tons of insects every summer. Without them, farmers will either suffer more crop losses or be forced to turn to greater use of pesticides. The loss of bats is likely to have impacts on the rest of us, as well, with bats no longer eating pesky, biting insects such as mosquitoes, and bats no longer feeding on moths and beetles that cause damage to valuable timber.
Mollie Matteson
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EDITORS
Dhyan Nirmegh. I am a Vermonter working and moving through these mountains and hills. Woodcutter, tree farmer, stonemason, conservation and environmental activist. The massive destruction of the topography has assailed my sense of cultural identity.
Fred Person provided technical support and conceptual layout of the material. He was
unwavering in his patience and thoughtfulness. His tenacity to follow through with the job was the key to this project. Master of Extension Education, UVM.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Will Staats. Wildlife biologist. Knowledgeable woodsman, writer, illustrator, wilderness canoeist, hunter and wildlife guide.
Sue Morse. Founder of Keeping Track, a non-‐profit organization. She has spent well over three decades researching wildlife and documenting her findings in articles and public presentations. Her research includes monitoring wildlife and documenting the presence and habitat needs of bobcat, cougar, black bear and Canadian lynx. Wildlife photographer and the eyes of the woods. Steve Wright. Aquatic biologist. Former Commissioner of Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. He considers Vermont his home no matter where he is at, and has worked
Roger Irwin. Vermonter, farmer, woodsman, logger and wildlife photographer, one of
Justin Lindholm. Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board. Hunter and outdoorsman.
Knowledgeable and steadfast in his dedication to the preserva ountains.
Ann Morse. Wilderness advocate, educator, canoeist. Teacher, Outdoor Education, Sterling College.
Andres Torizzo. Stormwater hydrologist. He has conducted water quality research and designed stormwater management systems in high elevation watersheds.
Ann Ingerson. Natural resource economist, focusing on how to live on the earth without destroying it with development. Degree in Agricultural Economics, Oxford, England.
Mollie Matteson. Conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. She is
the driving force to p at on the federal endangered species list.
Steven Young, Ph.D. Anthropologist, botanist and founder of the Center for Northern Studies in Wolcott, Vermont.
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Lesley Becker. Playwright, Winds of Change, a play about the impact of industrial wind
development on a rural family and their community. Appreciation for editorial guidance. Peggy Struhsacker. Wilderness advocate from Northern Vermont. She has a keen
appreciation of the land she lives in. Annette Smith. Environmental advocate. Executive director, Vermonters for a Clean
Environment. Director and organizer of groups questioning this destructive push for industrial wind development. Elizabeth Cooper, Environmental advocate, and experienced naturalist, outdoor educator, and land use planner. She works with Vermonters for a Clean Environment.
Don and Shirley Nelson, Their life and farm now under the Lowell wind turbines, have faced numerous obstacles with power companies and politicians. They continue with courage and persistence.
Peak Keepers, Is an ad hoc working group of scientists, educators and advocates focused s and their environmental,
cultural, and economic value.
Special thanks to: Luke Snelling, Vermonters for a Clean Environment, Energize Vermont, Mountain Talk, Craftsbury Conservation Commission, Save Our Senecas, Newark Neighbors United, Brighton Ridge Protectors, Citizens for the Preservation of Georgia Mountain, Holland-‐Derby Citizens for Responsible Energy, Ridgeline Protectors, Save
Commons Group, Friends of Grandpas Knob and The Ira Group.
Photo by Justin Lindholm
PITTSFORD RIDGE NEAR RUTLAND, VERMONT
CONCLUSION
We as humans are connected to our wildlife. Destroying their habitat we destroy our
selves. Most of the animals featured in this booklet are the top tier of Vermont’s wildlife. They
have the legs and mobility to move out of the way of the construction process.
When using thousands and thousands of pounds of explosives and heavy machinery for
a project across our mountain tops, all other wildlife and its habitats are assaulted.
Squirrels, chipmunks, mice, voles, porcupines, raccoons, ground birds, insects, frogs,
newts, salamanders and toads are immediately killed by blasting, by concussion, and by
compaction.
It raises the question, do we have to destroy so many species of plants and animals in
order to save them later?
We wouldn’t normally think of doing this to our mountains and wildlife but it seems
global warning has become a “just cause”. And we humans have been known to avoid our
responsibility of our actions for a "just cause".
In the quest to slow global warning down the industrial wind development has
destroyed and flattened these mountain tops in just the past 4 years.
So what is the answer?
Dhyan Nirmegh
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Near Rutland, Vermont Photo by Vermonters for a Clean Environment
PITTSFORD RIDGE LOOKING TOWARD GRANDPA S KNOB
PART OF THE TACONIC RANGE
ONE OF VERMONTS PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL WIND SITES
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Near Island Pond, Newark and Ferdinand, Vermont Photo by Steve Wright
SENECA MOUNTAIN PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL WIND SITE Impacts habitat includes Ferdinand Bog, West Mountain Management Area & Madison Basin.