PAWHUSKA - Osage County commissioners tabled a vote Monday on a proposed wind energy ordinance that has been criticized by tribal leaders and conservationists who say it needs "more teeth" to protect one of the last stretches of tallgrass prairie in the United States.

Two 150-megawatt wind farms have been proposed on private ranches east of Pawhuska. If built, some 200 turbines would be visible from more than 700 square miles in Osage County and would disrupt the habitat of eagles, prairie chickens, bats and other native species, according to The Nature Conservancy, which operates the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve north of... [continue via Web link]