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UPDATE | BLM Favors Massive Wind Farm Near Minidoka National Historic Site

The Biden administration is poised to allow a massive wind turbine farm to be erected in central Idaho not far from Minidokda National Historic Site, a National Park System unit that housed more than 13,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, a decision that immediately drew criticism.
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BLM Examining Wind Turbine Farm Proposed Near Minidoka National Historic Site

A proposal now open to public comment that could allow for up to 400 wind turbines to be erected between Minidoka National Historic Site and Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho raises a question of whether they would intrude on the somber setting at Minidoka, where more than 10,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated during World War II.

Minidoka National Historic Site: One Of The Country's Most Endangered Historic Places

Minidoka National Historic Site, a vestige of an ugly chapter of U.S. history when American citizens were incarcerated, is one of the country's most endangered historic places because of a massive wind turbine farm proposed to rise nearby on the windswept plains of southern Idaho.

Musings From Minidoka National Historic Site

It’s a winding drive through Idaho fields of corn, grain, sugar beets and potatoes. Out into the middle of a vast plain of irrigated fertility. But just 74 years ago, it was a spreading plain of sagebrush squatting beside a large irrigation canal carrying Snake River water to farms further west. It was a desolate, nearly empty place. A perfect place for a prison camp.

More and Bigger is Better for Minidoka National Historic Site

Minidoka National Historic Site, the former Minidoka Internment National Monument, has acquired vital new acreage and a satellite site that will tell the park’s story in a richer, more complete way. Preserving and interpreting a World War II concentration camp for people of Japanese ancestry helps teach important lessons about racial prejudice, injustice, and the loss of civil liberties.

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