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New USGS Analysis of Wind Turbine Upgrades Shows No Impact on Wildlife Mortality

New USGS Analysis of Wind Turbine Upgrades Shows No Impact on Wildlife Mortality

CORVALLIS, ORE. – Reduction in wildlife mortality rates is sometimes cited as a potential benefit to the replacement of older, smaller turbines by...

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Assessing Consequences of Human Activity on Wildlife Populations

Assessing Consequences of Human Activity on Wildlife Populations

Human activity sometimes stresses or kills individual animals. Most of the tools we have to address this problem are focused on those individuals. We...

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Annotated Bibliography of Scientific Research on Greater Sage-Grouse Published

Annotated Bibliography of Scientific Research on Greater Sage-Grouse Published

The U.S. Geological Survey has reviewed and summarized the substantial body of literature related to the conservation, management, monitoring, and...

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Tips for Dryland Restoration - Summer 2020

Tips for Dryland Restoration - Summer 2020

This season's edition of the Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest Newsletter contains recent program highlights including...

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Learning From Real-World Experience to Understand Renewable Energy Impacts to Wildlife

Learning From Real-World Experience to Understand Renewable Energy Impacts to Wildlife

A comprehensive analysis of how renewable energy facilities affect wildlife could inform efforts to predict and reduce these impacts. A team of...

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Examination of Surveys to Measure Renewable Energy Effects on Birds and Bats

Examination of Surveys to Measure Renewable Energy Effects on Birds and Bats

Although renewable energy facilities are often required to complete wildlife surveys before and after constructing facilities, there is a lack of...

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Estimating Aquatic Species Density From Environmental DNA

Estimating Aquatic Species Density From Environmental DNA

Environmental DNA – or eDNA - analytical methods are effective for estimating site occupancy and species distribution of aquatic organisms.

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EESC in the News: 50 Years of the North American Breeding Bird Survey

EESC in the News: 50 Years of the North American Breeding Bird Survey

By Rashmi Shivni

Audubon, June 27, 2017

To celebrate the count’s 50th anniversary, a set of newly published papers show how valuable the project's...

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Local Wind Energy Development Has Broad Consequences for Golden Eagles

Local Wind Energy Development Has Broad Consequences for Golden Eagles

Roughly over a quarter of the golden eagles killed at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area in Northern California from 2012-2014 were recent...

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