Here in Oregon 23% of the wildlife killed are killed by poachers, 11% by legal hunters, and 2% killed by predators. The rest die due to road kills, or natural causes. Just in this month two bull elk were found dead outside of Bend killed, and left to rot with no meat taken. A buck deer was shot with an arrow in town, and left to die.
And now Oregon, and Idaho, are spending millions retrofitting hydropower dams, and removing dams, trying to save the salmon driven to extinction in some areas by those same dams.
Used to drive truck for a living. Saw the wind farms outside of Oakland, Bakersfield, in Iowa, Montana, etc. Never found them to be that "ugly", however, I am not a great supporter of wind power. I would prefer seeing more natural gas, solar, biomass, and in some areas geothermal. Then too, they are not the only alternatives. Thorium could replace uranium in nuclear generation, and would be safer. More wood for construction, and furniture, could eliminate the need for higher energy driven steel.
