We’re camping in the Heart of the Great Basin along The Loneliest Highway. Greater nighthawks swoop, sagebrush is green. Stay tuned tomorrow for live-tweeting about Solar applications waiting for Greenlink North Transmission Project
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Dark night skies. We can’t see any glow of cities on horizon. Nothing but starlight and crescent Moon glow thru clouds. Few car lights on 50. Solar projects would have 24/7 bright night lighting for 2 yrs during construction
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Good morning from the US 50, central Nevada, middle of nowhere
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The Loneliest Highway is also the planned route of the proposed giant high-voltage Greenlink North Transmission Project. Emphasize Proposed
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Greenlink North would be 232 miles long, poles up to 180 ft tall, 525 kV
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Visual resources are managed by BLM and they have not completed a full visual inventory for Greenlink North. Because of this incomplete inventory BLM will manage this area for development
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Solar applications along Highway 50 near Austin
Nevada solar applications associated with the Greenlink North Transmission proposal are now being submitted to the Bureau of Land Management. The first ones are just south of remote Austin, Nevada. They are called Wildcat Solar and Eagle Butte 1 and 2 - about 40,000 acres total.
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This morning’s view in Big Smoky Valley looking towards the Toquima Range. Solar applications are here because of proposed Greenlink North application
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“Lonely Solar Project” and Wildcat Solar Project applications are right here east of Austin
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Recreation and tourism is important in this remote outback
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The basin floor sequesters Carbon with lichens and mosses, collectively called biocrusts. Driving over these to so strict giant solar projects destroys these
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I just drove through there two weeks ago and was stunned by the beauty and magnificence of the landscape, the diversity of land and ecologies and also the *green* of the sagebrush and riparian areas.
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