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The giant wind farm of 19 electricity-generating windmills in Highland County recently approved by the State Corporation Commission wasn't on the game department's radar. Studies elsewhere have shown that the 400-foot-high wind turbines kill bats and migrating songbirds and raptors.
By the time the SCC asked the game department to review the proposal, Zadnik said, the developer had already gotten permission from the county to build.
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