The mission of the NWCC Wildlife Workgroup is to identify, define, discuss, and through broad stakeholder involvement andcollaboration address wind-wildlife and wind-habitat interaction issues to promote the shared objective of developing commercial markets for wind power in the United States.


Conference Calls
On the workgroup's bi-monthly conference calls, members discuss emerging trends and potential collaborative activities to advance understanding and address concerns about potential impacts to wildlife from wind energy development. Participants also share and learn about priorities, research, and activities of other sectors and organizations. The schedule for these calls is available on the NWCC events calendar.  To receive the call-in information by email, please register for the Wildlife Workgroup email list by clicking the link below:
Register for the Wildlife Workgroup Email List


Wind Wildlife Research Meetings
The workgroup also has convened eight bi-annual Wind Wildlife Research Meetings where researchers from around the world meet to discuss research on the potential impacts of wind development to wildlife and habitat, as well as methods for mitigating the impacts. For information on the 2010 Wind Wildlife Research Meeting, click here. The next Research Meeting will take place the week of October 22, 2012.

Wildlife Workgroup Core Group
The NWCC Wildlife Workgroup decided at its meeting on May 5, 2005, to create a Core Group consisting of representatives from each of the sectors represented in the Workgroup. The intent is to add structure and continuity to the Workgroup, given the fluctuations in participation in the Wildlife Workgroup conference calls, meetings, and workshops.

To read the Groundrules of the Wildlife Workgroup Core Group, please visit the link below:
Wildlife Workgroup Core Group Groundrules

Current Core Group members are listed below (with alternates listed in parentheses):

Environmental and Conservation Organizations
Genevieve Thompson, National Audubon Society
(Kelly Fuller, American Bird Conservancy)

Jeff Deyette, Union of Concerned Scientists
(John Rogers, Union of Concerned Scientists)

Aimee Delach, Defenders of Wildlife
(Caroline Kennedy, Defenders of Wildlife)

Eric Jensen, Izaak Walton League of America

Rob Manes, The Nature Conservancy
(Jay Pruett, The Nature Conservancy)

Federal Agencies
Albert Manville, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Christy Johnson-Hughes, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Michael Green, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Patrick Gilman, U.S. Department of Energy
(Edgar DeMeo, Renewable Energy Consulting Services, Inc.)

Robert Thresher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(Karin Sinclair, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Ashley Conrad-Saydah, U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Tribal
Vacant as of this time

International
Andrew Robinson, Environment Canada

Rafael Villegas-Patraca, Mexico's Institute of Ecology

State Governments and Agencies
Linda Spiegel, California Energy Commission

Celia Greenman, Colorado Division of Wildlife
(Allison Vogt, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Utilities and Utility Regulators
Noel Cutright, We Energies (ret)
(Tina Taylor, Electric Power Research Institute)

Jim Lindsay, Next Era Energy
(Rich Piper, Next Era Energy)

Wind Industry
John Anderson, American Wind Energy Association
(Tom Vinson, American Wind Energy Association)

Jerry Roppe, Iberdrola Renewables
(David De Caro, Iberdrola Renewables)

Christina Calabrese, EDP Renewables