Researcher fears bald eagles on decline

APPLE RIVER, Ill. — In this very important month for the bald eagle, Terrence Ingram is trying to upend conventional wisdom about our majestic national symbol.

He lacks the academic bona fides of an ornithologist but has spent nearly 60 years researching and advocating for bald eagles; he is even credited with saving more than 6,000 acres of eagle habitat along the Mississippi River. In 1995, Ingram established the Eagle Nature Foundation as the successor to a similar organization he’d started nearly three decades earlier.
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Experts who know of Ingram’s work treat it with respect but skepticism.

“I don’t question Terry’s numbers showing decline,” said Illinois Audubon Society Executive Director James Herkert. “The question for Terry would be what effort has been made to tease out weather and effort? How deep did they go in their analysis?”

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on January 21, 2018 at 2:27pm

Interview some former wind industry disgruntled workers and they'll sing more than the birds. They have workers whose job it is to remove bird carcasses. Interview some disgruntled former environmental group members and they'll tell you the true amounts of wind industry money paying off the groups. They might even tell you about the Sea Change money which comes from the Russian oil industry to badmouth fracking in the U.S., an existential threat to them. They will also tell you that the Sea Change money pushes wind and solar for the same reason. Sea Change is but one foundation. Other foundation money is given in large amounts as grants to newspapers which would otherwise be dead. In return the newspapers blindly push what the foundations tell them to push. That is why Maine reporters still talk nameplate megawatts and how wind is powering 25,000 homes. A sad, sad state of affairs. Corruption is beyond rampant. There are few morals. Their golden rule is "Don't Get Caught".

Comment by Mary Kay Barton on January 21, 2018 at 12:25pm

The question for Audubon is:

What effort has been put into teasing out how many eagle deaths and loss of prime eagle habitats are attributable to the massive expansion of sprawling industrial wind factories across the nation?!?

Morons.

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 21, 2018 at 11:53am

Certainly, Trees are on the Decline along with forestry jobs in Maine. 

Comment by Robert Powers on January 21, 2018 at 11:48am

Don't worry and just wait...according to some lay iberal sources, they are already blaming this on "climate change"...to justify more and bigger wind & solar...

And it is not just bald eagles...anything animal species and now even plants "in decline" is going to be blamed on "climate change"...to be solved by more wind turbines!

Just about every research "study", etc has been (hopefully fewer now) funded by trying to link it to global warming & climate change...in the proposal for research or study...

 

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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