Abstract
The following mitigation plan for the APWRA is intended to support the early efforts by WEST, Inc to develop viable measures to reduce avian mortality in the APWRA. Herein we provide foundation for the WEST Inc mitigation suggestions with our data based on the NREL/CEC research results published in the CEC final report (Smallwood and Thelander 2004), as well as additional research published by CEC recently (Smallwood and Neher 2005). It also is based on additional analysis and interpretation of data used in these reports, but yet to be published. It is important to note that our assessment is based on 4,074 of the turbines we have necessary information on and does not account for the additional 1,085 turbines that we do not.