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Letter of the Day (Jan. 6): Eagles and wind farms

Utah mystery raises eyebrows, but wind farms don't.

January 5, 2014 at 8:00PM
This undated image provided by the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah shows one of four bald eagle that was brought into the center, but eventually died. They each had symptoms: body tremors and paralysis. Four bald eagles have died in northern Utah in the past two weeks, raising alarms among state wildlife officials. (AP Photo/Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah) ORG XMIT: MIN2013122915080127 ORG XMIT: MIN1312291510404857
The deaths of several bald eagles in Utah recently have raised alarms among state wildlife officials. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I found it ironic in reading the Dec. 30 article "What's killing the bald eagles of Utah?" that we do know what's killing at least that many per year in another way — wind farms. These would be the same wind farms that recently were given a 30-year exemption from prosecution for killing bald eagles by the Obama administration.

The latest estimates are that more than 500,000 birds are killed annually from wind farms. Of that, about 80,000 of them are raptors.

JIM FISHER, Edina
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