Also see related stories: Wind Resistance and Battle for the core of Wyoming A sage grouse lek is a clearing in the sagebrush where the males of the chickenesque species get together, puff up their chests and sputter nonsensical sounds in hopes of attracting females. It's not unlike a singles' bar, in other words. Biologists use leks -- their number as well as the number of birds that frequent them -- to map sage grouse core areas, or zones of significant habitat worth protecting. Today, much of Wyoming is wondering what will happen if hundreds of 400-foot-tall wind turbines are built near these leks. Will they kill the mood of the frisky birds? Or will they go largely unnoticed? Wind farms have been denounced as "Condor Cuisinarts" and "bird blenders," because the rotor blades on older turbines -- particularly at Altamont Pass in California -- have killed thousands of