Yeah I went out to Utah once and I saw ton of them out rotting in the sun, they weren’t profitable so they just abandon them since they’re too expensive to take down.
In Italy it's they have the same thing (for a different reason). The mafia exploits all the government subsidies to build them using shell companies which keep the money and never finish the projects.
So coal mining companies are required by law to do extensive reclamation work on their abandoned mines (there are now about 15,000 wild elk in eastern Kentucky living on those reclaimed mines). But the wind power industry can just abandon huge windmill farms to litter the landscape for decades to come? Unreal.
In addition to the legal elk seasons in Kentucky, there are now legal elk hunting seasons in Tennessee and Pennsylvania (PA's had some legal elk hunting off & on for over a century).
Besides KY (largest elk population east of the Rocky Mountain states), PA and TN, there are also wild herds in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Michigan (over a century), Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Florida (one small free herd 50+ years in NE FL), South Dakota, North Dakota (I don't think SD ever lost all of their elk - not sure about ND).
Turns out they're in 31 states now with that set to increase as there are currently 2-3 more states studying restoration efforts. There's been a lot of restoration of elk the last 25 years, and also some restored elk populations have crossed state lines and established breeding populations (KY to VA & WV); an individual KY elk in OH; 1 or 2 individual NC elk documented so far in SC).
Yeah I went out to Utah once and I saw ton of them out rotting in the sun, they weren’t profitable so they just abandon them since they’re too expensive to take down.
In Italy it's they have the same thing (for a different reason). The mafia exploits all the government subsidies to build them using shell companies which keep the money and never finish the projects.
So coal mining companies are required by law to do extensive reclamation work on their abandoned mines (there are now about 15,000 wild elk in eastern Kentucky living on those reclaimed mines). But the wind power industry can just abandon huge windmill farms to litter the landscape for decades to come? Unreal.
elk don't live in eastern kentucky. perhaps you mean deer.
Oh really? Well that will come as an enormous surprise to the hundreds of hunters who each harvest an elk every year in eastern Kentucky.
In addition to the legal elk seasons in Kentucky, there are now legal elk hunting seasons in Tennessee and Pennsylvania (PA's had some legal elk hunting off & on for over a century).
Besides KY (largest elk population east of the Rocky Mountain states), PA and TN, there are also wild herds in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Michigan (over a century), Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Florida (one small free herd 50+ years in NE FL), South Dakota, North Dakota (I don't think SD ever lost all of their elk - not sure about ND).
Turns out they're in 31 states now with that set to increase as there are currently 2-3 more states studying restoration efforts. There's been a lot of restoration of elk the last 25 years, and also some restored elk populations have crossed state lines and established breeding populations (KY to VA & WV); an individual KY elk in OH; 1 or 2 individual NC elk documented so far in SC).