In the Australian state of Victoria, concern over the threat that turbines could pose to the rare orange-bellied parrot nearly put paid to a wind farm, the Bald Hills project, in 2006.

ECONOMIST: Wind energy and politics

Tucked between the Castle and Little Belt mountain ranges, the ranch has 9, 000 deeded acres, five reservoirs, 3 miles of the trout-rich North Fork of the Musselshell River, and antelope, deer and elk that roam the mix of bald hills and stands of Douglas fir and ponderosa pines.

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