Workers with Clearwater Energy assemble a wind tower on Rattlesnake Flat earlier this summer.

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Wind farm sprouts on Rattlesnake Flat
September 25, 2020 1 a.m.

Wind farm sprouts on Rattlesnake Flat

The name Rattlesnake Flat evokes bleak and remote desolation — lonely cacti dotting a dusty landscape, the occasional tumbleweed lopping past a cattle skull slowly bleaching under an unrelenting desert sun.