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My name is Kent Bonar and my address is HC 62 Box 656 Deer, AR. I'm a naturalist for the Newton County Wildlife Association. And I object specifically to the flares. The flares are a threat to any wildlife that's flying night or day. As their explained, they're run off of pressure and can come on or off at any given time. So it's hard to predict when the flares would be actually operating. And wildlife, whether it's migrating birds, migrating bats, insects, which those forms of wildlife need for food, all of that stuff is subject to an open flare. And under certain conditions, especially under fog, which Big Creek gets a lot of fog, you get diffuse lighting conditions where birds, bats can't see where they're flying. And you'll get a situation similar to a tower kill, where the birds will be flying around in this ambient light in the fog. They can't see where they're going and it'll be like the tower kills I've had to work since the 70s or like the blackbird kill down in Little Rock a couple of years ago, where the birds just fly into each other. They fly into buildings and obstacles. They fly into trees. They fly into the flare itself. And so it's an unacceptable threat to the wildlife in general. And unless they had the flare entirely covered to where it doesn't shed light, then it's going to be attracting those birds. The compound itself is probably well light enough that it's would be attracting them in any case and the flare would be the thing to finish them off. So it's like I say, an unacceptable threat to wildlife and especially endangered species. And the Fish and Wildlife Service should have something to say about it. That's all I've got.

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