Wildlife Mitigation Approaches to Power Line Placement

 


When personally looking at line placement and pole placement, one should consider the whole ecosystem. While structure plans for any project are based on engineering, various aspects should be highlighted to best address wildlife mitigation goals.

Location: Wellington, CO 80549, USA

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