Streams of Thought: How can conservation – easements, etc. – compete with wind projects? Or can it?

At the successful completion of a pheasant hunt in Murray County, Minn., just a few weeks ago, I sat on the tailgate of the Chevy and admired the blaze of a sunset and its reflection on a duck slough below while listening to the cackling of cock pheasants that had returned to roost in the grasslands of a spread of CREP land (perpetual conservation easement acres).
A few yard lights glowed from distant farms, and I heard the drone of a tractor to the north.
I thought about the many pheasant hunts during the past couple of decades on that land. And before that, “picking rocks” and baling hay, back when much of the land was in ag production.

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