This week, UNESCO, the cultural agency of the United Nations,
threatened to act against Britain for failing to protect "world
heritage sites". Their complaints included a proposed wind
energy facility that would impact Neolithic sites on Orkney.
Also in the news, a wind project planned for public lands in
Nevada would site seventy-two massive turbines overlooking the
Comstock Historic District and Virginia City National Historic
Landmark, the largest federally designated historic district in
the United States. In Virginia, Highland New Wind Development is
fighting a condition of its approval requiring an archaeological
study and viewshed analysis, among other studies. Of special
concern is the impact the towers will have on Camp Allegheny, a
Civil War battlefield atop Allegheny Mountain less than a mile
from the project site. Finally, Windaction.org was forwarded
these photos (image1, image2) of Colorado's Pawnee Buttes, a
site memorialized in the movie version of James Michener's epic
Centennial. The Pawnee