Birdlife International is carrying an item on a model for wildlife-friendly energy development in Wyoming.  We would do well to study this carefully here in Scotland.  The main direction for future energy production in Scotland is renewables; particularly wind farms which have drawn many objectors owing to the assertion that such installations are detrimental to wildlife, notably birds. The Wyoming situation involves an even more damaging modus operandi - oil and gas production and its impact on near-threatened species such as Sage Grouse.  Let us hope that we can learn from the changes made by the Federal Bureau of Land Management  and not dismiss them, as we so often do, as being NDH (not designed here).

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