Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute — Attraction in Moscow

PCEI accepted $5000 from the Danish wind turbine company that is planting industrial-sized turbines all over the unique Palouse Region in Whitman County. Because of the tax system in Whitman county, property owners taxes will be increasing as the turbines depreciate but land owners who lease will be making money. Sweet trade-off. Setbacks are too close to homes. The second largest problem with turbines is fires which are not reportable in the United States. Volunteer firefighters without the training to fight them combined with an emergency drought declaration that will leave our grain fields as tinder is a terrible combination. Photo tourism generates more than $1 million for hotels, restaurants, retailers locally. That disappears with 12000 acres of wind turbines. Work is underway to designate the Palouse Region as a national heritage site. Turbines are fine -- but not when they violate people's legal right to quiet enjoyment of their property and it's on prime ag land. Plenty of degraded land exists and plenty of places where they won't be sited near homes. This wasn't a good...

My family just moved to amazing Idaho from Mississippi and have fallen in love with PCEI! It's such a beautiful place with wonderful people who are eager to teach and share their love of nature! We are looking forward to summer camps, the many opportunities for my children to learn what nature has to offer, and mostly looking forward to...

These good people work hard at protecting our local environment. That's something we take for granted...