Fall Photo Gallery
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
November , 2010 - Spring Valley near Ely, Nevada -
Our friends at Western Watersheds Project shot these photos as a storm hit Spring Valley and Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park to the east. This valley is the site of a proposed large wind farm that would decimate the wild remote character of the area, fragment sagebrush and winterfat shrub habitats, and threaten birdlife.
^Snake Range (Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project).
^Wheeler Peak catches the sunset (Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project).
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
^Flocks of Robins fly through the valley (Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project).
^American robins feeding on juniper berries in the Swamp cedar Area of Critical Environmental Concern adjacent to the wind project proposal. Turning turbines could kill many birds here. (Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
^Wheeler Peak (Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project).
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
^Meteorological tower set up by the wind applicant have almost invisible guy wires that birds might fly into. (Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
^Firy sunset to the west. (Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
(Photo by Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project)
