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Endangered bighorn spotted in McCain Valley
Credit: East County Magazine | January 2, 2014 | eastcountymagazine.org ~~
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While hiking in McCain Valley north of Sacatone Road on New Year’s Day, Laurie Baker and her husband encountered these two Peninsular Bighorn rams.
“What a pleasant surprise!” Baker exclaimed of her New Year’s discovery – an important sighting, since the draft environmental impact statement for Iberdrola Renewables’ planned Tule Wind project in McCain Valley concludes that wind turbines aren “located outside of critical habitat areas and will not have any detrimental impacts on sheep.”
Finding proof of the endangered animals doesn’t assure their protection, however. When Pattern Energy’s Ocotillo Express Wind Facility was approved, the project’s environmental report similarly concluded that the site was not bighorn habitat. When photos of a flock of bighorn on the project site were sent to then Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, he issued take permits allowing up to 10 bighorn ewes and lambs to be killed, allowing the project to proceed at the expense of this critically endangered species which is at risk of extinction, according to the Bighorn Institute.
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