---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: stan moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 25, 2008 6:46 AM Subject: announcing new listserver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion of Ornithology" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.Folks -- Wind energy development is a fact of life in a world of dramatic changes in energy availability and usage in the New Millenium. Some environmental advocates, such as Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, are calling for the installation of hundreds of thousands, even over 1 Million new wind turbines worldwide to satisfy human energy needs while reducing greenhous gas emissions. Can we have wind energy and conserve bird, bat, and other wildlife populations simultaneously? Most major ornithological and conservation organizations believe we can have both, if we use our best science and adequate monitoring to place wind turbines and wind farms ONLY in appropriate, relatively safe locations. Much research is underway and a variety of reports and peer reviewed publications are available. At the same time, anti-wind activists are confusing the issue by making statements that confuse the public and even confuse conservation biologists at time. One ornithologist operates a listserver which allows much disinformation and even slander of ornithologists to take place without rebuttal and with no regard at all for scientific rigor or accuracy. For this reason, I am starting a new listserver called [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone can visit the home page at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/WindTurbinesWildlife/ Researchers and conservationists are encouraged to use the listserver as a resource to gain access to published, peer reviewed scientific information on issues such as siting wind farms, estimating mortality, determining effects of scavengers on carcass counts, behaviors of migrating birds as related to wind farms, how wind turbine noises affect different wildlife, evolving techniques of remote monitoring of offshore wind turbines on seabirds, etc. I have already added many pdf files in a variety of categories to the listserver webpage for access by members. I encourage others to add similar files as published or to send them to me to be added to the reference materials already filed away in listserver archives. I will be analyzing and countering misinformation by anti-wind activists who either misunderstand or deliberately mis-state published science in their "analyses" which consist of faux science, total lack of objectivity, and misleading pronouncements that even attempt to attack the credibility and motives of reputable scientists in the U.S. and in Europe and Britain. Please consider joining and participating in this new listserver if you have a professional or conservation interest in wind turbines and their impacts on birds and other wildlife. Stan Moore Fairfax Raptor Research P.O. Box 341 San Geronimo, CA 94963 707.479.9863 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. Get it now!<http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008>
