I am the author of a 2008 report titled Wind Power in Wyoming: Doing it Smart from the Start. The Anschutz Corporation only got permission to site their wind farm in such a problematic locale by goading the Sage Grouse Local Working Group into moving the boundaries of the Core habitats so the Chokecherry-Sierra Madre project was excluded, and thus exempted, from environmental protections.Īdd in the heavy losses of golden eagles forecasted for the project, and it’s a biodiversity disaster.Įnsuring that renewable projects don’t cause major environmental problems is a matter of intelligent siting. And this is a really big wind farm, stretching across hundreds of thousands of acres of prime habitat.
This designation precludes wind farms, because sage grouse avoid tall structures, and therefore building a wind farm ruins sage grouse habitat. The Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm is sited on a checkerboard of public and private lands that the State of Wyoming originally designated as Core habitats for greater sage grouse. In reality, neither would have ever been built in an environmentally sustainable world. This is where the LA Times’ article proves short-sighted: It treats the TransWest Express powerline, and the Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm that it serves, as unqualified benefits for the Earth’s environment. The climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis are of equal importance to humans and every other species with which we share this globe, and it would be foolhardy to ignore either in pursuit of solutions for the other. If we leave half the Earth to nature and radically reduce our environmental footprint on the remainder, we might well halt ecosystem collapse and the extinction pandemic in the short term, but if the climate crisis deepens, we could end up on a hot, stormy, lifeless planet anyway - and if we focus myopically on just the reducing fossil fuels, we might revert to a cooler planet only to find it depauperate in plants and animals and ultimately incapable of supporting our own species. This question puts a fine point on the twin looming disasters that humanity has brought upon the Earth: the Climate Crisis and the Biodiversity Crisis. The reporters therefore skirt perhaps the most important question facing our society as we make the necessary transition from dirty fossil fuels to renewable energy: Are renewable energy projects actually environmentally sustainable, and if not, what does it take to make them so? While these articles make some valid points about the need for renewable energy, they gloss over the reality that this particular wind farm is, and always has been, an environmentally harmful renewable energy project, inappropriately sited in sensitive sage grouse and golden eagle habitats. You can back-track to any of the earlier areas in the game and everything is still obtainable at this stage except for the trophy “Storm Master.Recent news stories focus on how a conservation easement on a large ranch in northwest Colorado is blocking a major new transmission line, and therefore stalling the enormous Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm in southcentral Wyoming. Once you’ve beaten the game you can load back in to just before you started the fight with the last boss.
If you want to make it easier for yourself so there’s less backtracking (the game has no fast travel) I’d suggest clearing each area of all lightstones, before moving onto the next one. You have to beat the game and collect nearly all of the collectables of the game. The Pathless is a relatively straight forward Platinum trophy. STEP 1: PLAYTHROUGH THE STORY, CLEARING EACH AREA AS YOU GO Read each trophy description for more information. The Number of Missable Trophies: “Sky Master” is potentially missable, while “Storm Master” is missable. It’s a rather chill experience and a relatively easy Platinum to earn.Įarning the Platinum in The Pathless more-or-less requires 100% competition, with just a handful of miscellaneous trophies. The Pathless is a puzzle/adventure game without fast-travel or a map.
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