Eastern Washington Wind Conservation Blueprint

Using wind-sensitive species and ecosystems as risk elements, areas in Eastern Washington were mapped where wind power development appears to pose the least to greatest risk to biodiversity. As the pace of development in the region accelerates, efforts to balance the benefits of wind with the need to protect scarce and valuable natural resources has grown more acute, particularly in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion in Eastern Washington where most wind resources are concentrated and more than half of native ecosystems have already been converted to other uses.We describe the methods we used to map biodiversity risk levels see our Wind Report.

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