Blackland Prairie ecosystems: Lost & Found's Journal

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March 16, 2022

Prepare to say "Goodbye".

Few ideas are more wrong-headed and greedy than the construction of landscape-blanketing installations of solar panels. For many engineering reasons, solar electricity should be produced near to its end users, period. Other approaches are simply further "justification" for development sprawl, valuable open space taken to prop up unsustainable expansion. In this instance, in the very near future all remaining evidence of original North Texas prairie habitat could be erased. Originally from the Washington Post: "Solar project pits conservation views; Land conservation at odds with renewable energy in split over prairie’s fate". https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/mar/13/solar-project-pits-conservation-views/

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