Parked wind tower

A segment of one of the towers destined for the Palouse Wind farm in north Whitman County sits beside the Jones Truck and Implement lot of the Walla Walla Highway in north Colfax Tuesday morning. Segments have regularly passed along local highways in the evening and early morning hours for the past two weeks as the firm erects towers for its 58-turbine site on Naff Ridge. This segment, with a wind guard bearing the brand name of its manufacturer, Vestas, was awaiting the final leg from Colfax to the Baird Road construction site.