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U.S. Bureau of Land Management archeologist Pat Walker met with several state and federal historical and cultural organizations in Rawlins. The purpose was to develop an agreement between the Power Company of Wyoming, the developer of the 1,000-wind turbine farm located south of Rawlins, and the historical and cultural societies.
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The BLM's Rock Springs and Rawlins field offices are seeking public input as part of a planning review of the resource management plans that will guide wind energy and other development on public lands in southern Wyoming.
BLM officials said the agency is responsible for ensuring that the scenic values of the public lands within the two field office regions are considered before allowing uses that may have negative impacts.
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Natrona County has only 11 of the 770 wind turbines in Wyoming, but their close proximity to Casper makes them a distinctive feature (they are impossible to miss), and probably will be for decades to come. Yet neither the county or Casper have any specific visual guidelines in their planning regulations concerning wind towers.
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Wind farms are becoming a familiar site along Wyoming's interstates and highways.
Residents know wind development is out there and that there is a lot of it. What they do not know is how the industry will alter the state's landscape in the future.
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"Wyoming is not only a recipient for proposals for transmission, we're also (electricity) generators," Lahti said.
And wind turbines, which can reach 400 feet, will dominate the views in parts of Wyoming unless state and federal governments, historical preservation organizations, tribes and industry avoid cluttering the landscape before they build, he said.
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Homeowners say turbines make for lousy scenery
June 18, 2008 by Jodi Rogstad in Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
June 18, 2008 by Jodi Rogstad in Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
In southeast Wyoming, they've pledged 1 million acres of land in hopes that wind farm developers will choose them, says Scott Zimmerman, a farmer and rancher in Laramie County.
But Susie Lemaster, who is not an owner of vast acreage, built a house with her husband in the country four years ago near Horse Creek Road.
She doesn't want to see the neighboring land filled with 500- foot towers topped with rotating blades, making electricity.
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