Oakesdale grade school students get first-hand look at wind turbines

The wind turbine could no longer fit in between Tyler Bober’s fingers. So the Oakesdale Elementary student stretched his arms like an alligator mouth to capture the size of the nearing tower.

Bober was one of roughly two dozen first through fourth grade students who toured the Palouse Wind farm on Naff Ridge last Thursday, Oct. 4.

There, they learned one of the wind farm’s turbines could supply more than enough electricity to power every household in Oakesdale; that each tower has a ladder with 250 rungs inside, and that the workers do not live in the trailers at the project’s Baird Road headq...