The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project sued the Bureau of Land Management in 2011, alleging that the project received inadequate environmental scrutiny.
The environmentalists were particularly concerned with the proximity of the project to a cave housing migratory and resident bat populations, including Mexican free-tail bats.
Pattern, however, is a leader in using radar to detect birds and bats around wind projects and is deploying systems at Spring Valley that can detect the bats as they enter and exit the cave.
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