Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — Reader D.S.V.  forwarded this: French court orders windfarm to cease operations for a year because the turbines caused the death of a golden eagle.  JWRs Comments: Conservative estimates indicate that wind turbines kill hundreds of raptors and hundreds of thousands of other birds each year here in the United States, and there … The post SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.