HMANA Wind Turbine Resolution

The following resolution was adopted by the HMANA Board of Directors on November 20, 2004:

RESOLVED, to support the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in their efforts to establish permanent and binding siting standards to minimize the negative impact of wind turbine projects on migrating birds. RESOLVED, that HMANA supports rigorous peer-reviewed scientific evaluation of the risks to birds and bats and the requirement of multi-year avian risk studies, including day and night radar studies, before the approval of siting of any proposed projects, in accordance with USF&W standards, and that these studies give special attention to avoidance of siting wind turbines on migratory flyways, ridge lines, important bird areas, and nesting locations of threatened, endangered and special concern species.