Renewable Energy Working Group: Resources

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• Solar
  • The AFWA Energy and Wildlife Policy Committee – Solar Wildlife Working Group in Partnership with American Clean Power Association and Energy and Wildlife Action Coalition.2024. Communications Framework for Solar Energy Project Proponents and State Fish and Wildlife Agencies
    https://www.fishwildlife.org/application/files/6317/1770/4984/Communications_Framework_for_Solar_Energy_Project_Proponents_and_State_Fish_and_Wildlife_Agencies_.pdf 
  • Energy Wildlife. 2024. Solar 101: https://youtu.be/9mFmsz8O4iQ 
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  2012.  Biological Opinion and Conservation Review for the Bureau of Land Management Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.  Division of Consultation, Habitat Conservation Plans, Recovery, and State Grants.  http://blmsolar.anl.gov/documents/docs/peis/SolarPEIS_Biological_Opinion.pdf.  Last accessed on June 11, 2014.
  • Wild Utah Project.  2012.  Best Management Practices for Siting, Developing, Operating, and Monitoring Renewable Energy in the Intermountain West: A Conservationist’s Guide.  Salt Lake City.  March 12.  http://wildutahproject.org/files/images/BMP%20for%20Renewable%20Energy-2012-WUP.pdf.  Last accessed June 11, 2014.  (Also covers wind, so co-listed in solar and wind).
• Wind
  • Arnett, E. B., D. B. Inkley, D. H. Johnson, R. P. Larkin, S. Manes, A. M. Manville, J. R. Mason, M. L. Morrison, M. D. Strickland, and R. Thresher. 2007. Impacts of wind energy facilities on wildlife and wildlife habitat. Wildlife Society Technical Review 07-2. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. https://wildlife.org/documents/technical-reviews/docs/Wind07-2.pdf.  Last accessed on June 11, 2014.
  • Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.  2007.  Wind Power Siting, Incentives, and Wildlife Guidelines in the United States.  Prepared by Jodi Stemler Consulting, Denver, CO.  October.  http://www.fws.gov/habitatconservation/windpower/afwa%20wind%20power%20final%20report.pdf. Last accessed on June 11, 2014.
  • Effects of weather on avian migration at proposed ridgeline wind energy sites: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jwmg.119/abstract
  • Effect of wind energy development on breeding duck densities in the Prairie Pothole Region: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jwmg.481/abstract
  • FWS Eagle Conservation Plan Guidance document: http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/pdf/management/eagleconservationplanguidance.pdf
  • Kingsley, A., and B. Whittam.  2007.  Wind Turbines and Birds.  A Background Review for Environmental Assessment.  Prepared for Environment Canada/Canadian Wildlife Service by Bird Studies Canada.  Gatineau, Quebec.  http://listserver.energy.ca.gov/windguidelines/documents/other_guidelines/2006-05-12_BCKGRD_ENVIRMTL_ASSMNT.PDF.  Last accessed on June 11, 2014.
  • A Large-Scale Mitigation Experiment to Reduce Bat Fatalities at Wind Energy Facilities: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2193/2008-233/abstract
  • National Research Council.  2007.  Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects.  Committee on Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Impacts, Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Sciences.  National Academies Press.  Washington, D.C.  http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11935.html.  Last accessed on June 11, 2014.
  • Patterns of Bat Fatalities at Wind Energy Facilities in North America: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2193/2007-221/abstract
  • Renewable Energy Action Team (California Energy Commission, California Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service).  2010.  Best Management Practices and Guidance Manual: Desert Renewable Energy Projects. California Energy Commission, Siting, Transmission and Environmental Protection Division. REAT‐1000‐2010‐009.  http://www.energy.ca.gov/2010publications/REAT-1000-2010-009/REAT-1000-2010-009.PDF.  Last accessed June 11, 2014.
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  2012.  Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines.  Arlington, VA.  March 23. http://www.fws.gov/ecological-services/es-library/pdfs/WEG_final.pdf.  Last accessed on June 11, 2014.
  • Wild Utah Project.  2012.  Best Management Practices for Siting, Developing, Operating, and Monitoring Renewable Energy in the Intermountain West: A Conservationist’s Guide.  Salt Lake City.  March 12.  http://wildutahproject.org/files/images/BMP%20for%20Renewable%20Energy-2012-WUP.pdf.  Last accessed June 11, 2014.  (Also covers solar, so co-listed in wind and solar).
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