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

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

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.