{"id":171,"date":"2014-10-18T18:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T18:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=171"},"modified":"2014-10-18T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T18:19:39","slug":"electric-power-rights-of-way-a-new-frontier-for-conservation-by-richard-conniff-yale-environment-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Electric Power Rights of Way: A New Frontier for Conservation by Richard Conniff: Yale Environment 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/electric_power_rights_of_way_a_new_frontier_for_conservation\/2816\/\">Electric Power Rights of Way: A New Frontier for Conservation by Richard Conniff: Yale Environment 360<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dek\"><em>Often mowed and doused with herbicides, power transmission lines have long been a bane for environmentalists. But that\u2019s changing, as some utilities are starting to manage these areas as potentially valuable corridors for threatened wildlife.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"author\">by richard conniff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nobody loves electrical power transmission lines. They typically bulldoze across the countryside like a clearcut, 150 feet wide and scores or hundreds<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"imageleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/images\/features\/ROW-250b.png\" alt=\"integrated vegetation management in right-of-way\" width=\"240\" height=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"credit\">ROW Stewardship Council<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Studies show that some power line corridors provide habitat for now-scarce birds.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">of miles long, in a straight line that defies everything we know about nature. They\u2019re commonly criticized for fragmenting forests and other natural habitats and for causing collisions and electrocutions for some birds. Power lines also have raised the specter, in the minds of anxious neighbors, of illnesses induced by electromagnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a little startling to hear wildlife biologists proposing that properly managed transmission lines, and even natural gas and oil pipeline rights-of-way, could be the last best hope for many birds, pollinators, and other species that are otherwise dramatically declining.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click line above for the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Power Rights of Way: A New Frontier for Conservation by Richard Conniff: Yale Environment 360. Often mowed and doused with herbicides, power transmission lines have long been a bane for environmentalists. But that\u2019s changing, as some utilities are starting to manage these areas as potentially valuable corridors for threatened wildlife. by richard conniff Nobody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[156,271,399,645,646,850],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-conservation","tag-environment-2","tag-herbicides","tag-power-lines","tag-power-transmission-line-right-of-way","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}