“Grassland Bird Trust, a nonprofit conserving habitat land for endangered and threatened birds in Washington County, is collaborating with a renewable energy company to take care of more terrain.
Eden Renewables, a Troy-based solar farm company, is set to begin leasing 44 acres of land from the trust, adding to a total of 114 acres that the biodiverse group will manage for the next 20 years.
“Protecting wildlife habitats including birds is a crucial part of Eden’s ecology and biodiversity management planning,” said Eden Renewables Project Development Director Gillian Black. “We are extremely pleased to be working with Grassland Bird Trust to ensure that these sites continue to provide havens for local grassland birds and wintering raptors.”
Eden Renewables designed and develops solar farms that are pollinator-friendly and suit local agriculture. With the new agreement, Washington County grasslands exceed New York State mitigation requirements for damage to endangered and threatened species.
The lands in question are home to birds including short-eared owls, northern harriers, upland sandpipers, American kestrels, horned larks, grasshopper sparrows, eastern meadowlarks, bobolinks and more.”
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Petrequin, Jay. Channel 10 News 30 August 2021.
SEE ADDITIONAL
NYS DEC ENB Region 5 October 21, 2020 Completed Applications
https://www.dec.ny.gov/enb/20201021_reg5.html
Incidental Take Permit from the DEC for unavoidable impacts to rare, threatened or endangered species or their habitat associated with the installation of 2 new solar farms.