​Until recently, renewable energy like wind was an increasing segment of the energy sector in the United States. Wind energy offers many benefits relative to fossil fuels, including no external costs like water and air pollution. However, the negative impacts to birds and bats as a result of wind energy remain. My presentation will highlight research my students and I conducted relative to birds and bats at a wind farm in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties.
 
David Drake is a Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and extension programs primarily focus on wildlife and wildlife damage management in human-dominated landscapes. David received his Ph.D. in Forestry from North Carolina State University, a M.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A & M University, and a BA degree in Biology from Macalester College.