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In wind-farm debate, concerns mount over leasing of private property

As the nation’s demand for renewable energy grows, landowners and governments across the West are wrestling with how to balance private-property rights against the far-reaching visual impact of 400-foot-tall wind turbines and the transmission lines needed to move power to distant cities.

Richard Grant Jr.’s family has ranched Wyoming’s rugged granite-and-grass hills for generations, their 123-year-old ranch dotted with reminders of their history — a historic schoolhouse, an old red barn and the parcels of land sold away during hard times.

But it wasn’t until a few years ago that a radical prospect blew in with the stiff winds that sweep the ridge tops of the northern Laramie Range: wind turbines.

By Matt Joyce

The Associated Press

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