I live in Osage Co..OK.
I am Native...but not Osage.
None the less...the Osage..struck a deal with the Feds....as they built maybe hundreds of windmills...on Osage land.
They could LEGALLY kill Bald Eagles.
Who's to know..how many, Hawks, other Eagles..and Bat's, Monarch Butterflies and song birds these wind mills have killed.....
I am NOT a greeny...I am a hunter and a fisherman. But this crap is wrong....
Supposedly the Feds know.
Even if they do not pay penalties for the birds killed they are still required to report all bird strikes to the EPA.
Agreed
I remember living in New Mexico in 1959. There was a sheep ranch south of us and they had predators they had killed strung up all along their fence gate. Mostly coyotes.
One day we went there and saw a dead Mountain lion, and several Golden Eagles. We plucked out the feathers to fletch our home made arrows with.
Again, 1959.
When I mentioned this on Facebook several years back one person almost got violent with me over it. I was thrown off that site not long after when some woman wanted to relocate a nest of wasps. I said “You don’t relocate wasps! You kill them!” Wham I was gone.