AN EXCERPT: The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management has the following warning on its web page regarding Southern California’s Coyote Mountain: “Removal, disturbance, or attempting to remove archaeological materials is a felony. Selling, receiving, purchasing, transporting, exchanging or offering to do so is prohibited by law.”
Even though the Interior Department has acknowledged Coyote Mountain as an established archaeological site and the pre-historic and historic presence there of the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, on May 11 Secretary Ken Salazar signed the Record of Decision (ROD)—the official approval—for construction of the Ocotillo Express Wind Facility, a massive industrial wind factory of 112 turbines, each standing 450 feet tall, across more than 10,150 acres of public land that is sacred to the Quechan, Kumeyaay and Cocopah Nations. The land is approximately 90 miles east of San Diego. In addition to the turbines, the project includes a 12-acre concrete batch plant lay-down area, a 3.4-acre site for an operations-and-maintenance facility, a 2.1-acre substation, a 23.5-acre interconnection switchyard, up to three permanent meteorological towers, and around 42 miles of new access roads.
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