"The project, which could expand wind power, was supposed to be done by 2018. The holdup? The American burying beetle."
"LOESS CANYONS, Nebraska — Colleen Rothe-Groleau shares her dead rat recipe. It’s pretty simple, really.
A good-humored wildlife biologist with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Rothe-Groleau recently was out early checking the traps — each baited with a prepared deceased rodent. Her game was the American burying beetle, a creature squished between energy production and environmental protection.
The beetle is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. It also inhabits the proposed route of a 226-mile transmission line planned by the Nebraska Public Power District — one the utility had originally planned to finish building by 2018."
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