Hinkley Solar Environmental Analysis
I am writing to you live today from my Nissan Rogue in the Mojave National Preserve. Earlier this week I was working in the field at a utility pole replacement site in the Mojave desert. Essentially I was in the middle of no where. Have you ever heard of Boron? Well, I was working close to there. It may as well have been Mars! Anyways, my job as the biologist on site is to ensure environmental mitigation are complied with for electric companies that work on and replace utility poles. The mitigation measures include surveying utility poles for any woodpecker cavities, primarily for the Acorn woodpecker. I also examined the utility poles for presence of bats. However, I saw neither - sometimes you have a negative survey where you don’t see much action in terms of wildlife sightings. Aside from examining the actual pole itself, I was also responsible for doing sweeps of the area to make sure there was no sign of other sensitive desert wildlife. For this project, the primary species o...
