[pct-l] Wind farms crossing PCT at Cameron Canyon and Kelso Valley near Tehachapi, CA.

[Sir Mixalot]

I would be much more supportive of wind projects if they would
significantly reduce or eliminate the network of dirt roads.  Solar is even
worse.  With rare exceptions, every photo of solar projects show that
they've scraped the ground down to the dirt.  Not a single blade of grass
or wildflower under those "green" projects.  It doesn't have to be this way.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

> Thank you for this. I did not see any raptors in that section myself,
> but I did see the environmental impact. I have been dismayed at the
> inability to communicate even to members of the Sierra Club what I
> saw. Nobody will believe wind energy isn't green. I try to show my
> pictures, how every turbine requires a dirt road, how they can't be
> built or maintained without a diesel crane (got pictures of that,
> too), that they are just derivatives of oil, not solutions but they
> throw up their arms and say we need it and it's green energy and I
> don't know anything. I was there in the flickering light and the
> hideous whine and the fumes from the crane but nobody cares. Keep
> fighting.
>
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:04 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> > Hello fellow hikers,
> >
> > This is my first posting to the group. I hope this is appropriate to
> > broadcast because the topic is critical to hikers.
> >
> > Those of us living near Tehachapi are experiencing the total
> > destruction of
> > the mountain ranges that traverse the Pacific Crest Trail by wind
> > turbines.
>
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