An Albany County conservation group is accusing federal agencies of concealing eagle deaths caused by wind farms in Carbon County.

Meanwhile a retired Wyoming Game and Fish biologist says the number of golden eagles — a protected species — are plummeting in Carbon County. His data suggests wind farms are to blame for nearly half of all human-caused eagle deaths.

The Albany County Conservancy has filed a lawsuit in the District of Columbia to force the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to release all 1,166 pages of the incident reports about bald and golden eagle deaths and injuries related to the Seven Mile Hill, Ekola Flats, and Dunlap wind farms.

The Conservancy had first sought these records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing submitted

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