Why non-active power lines were put up

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative recently donated equipment, staff, and poles to put up two segments of non-active power lines at the Tall Pine Wildlife Management Area dove fields in northern Greenville County.  According to the DNR, power lines stretched across a dove field help both mourning doves and biologists.  The lines give the doves extra habitat and a place to roost where they can rest and keep their eyes on birds of prey, and they give wildlife biologists an easy way to keep track of how many doves are using the fields.  Tammy Wactor Waldrop, biologist based at Clemson, says a contract crew for Blue Ridge worked all day to put the lines up.