Las Vegas Review-Journal

Wind project

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Ireadwhere­theywant to build the Crescent Peak Wind Project near Paiute Valley west of Searchligh­t. This would be a travesty.

The location, as described by the Review-journal’s Henry Brean on March 25, could not be worse when you consider the natural beauty and expanse of one of the largest Joshua tree forests in the United States. Documentat­ion of the slow growth of Joshua trees exists in the scientific literature, indicating that seedlings and older trees grow at the rate of slightly more than one inch per year. Thus, a 20-foot-tall Joshua tree is likely greater than 200 years old. Would you cut down a 200-year-old tree to build a network of roads and plant wind turbines and destroy 32,000 acres of Mojave Desert habitat?

I have resided and worked in the desert of Southern Nevada for the past 50 years, and I have seen much destructio­n take place. Let us not destroy our scenic areas

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