This large project is a betrayal of any reasonable conservation or ecologic truism. Destroying forest and wetland areas is a net loss for our environment and our and future lives. Solar power needs great expansion and indeed as others have said, rooftops and parking lots are ideal locations and provide local and smaller scale power without long transmission lines. It has the downside of diminishing profit, but as increasing heat waves show, thats a poor substitute for the best planning, taking into account the natural heat sinks and other benefits of our shrinking natural habits.