Greg Scott, Livermore Since it is so convenient for the Tri-Valley Conservancy to sign up to "monitor" the proposed Aramis Solar Project in the North Livermore Valley even before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors' "informed" approval of the project, I have a modest proposal: Tri-Valley Conservancy needs to monitor the metagenomics of the soil bacteria of the site. Metagenomics, also called environmental genomics, studies the genetic material directly from the field. Soil bacteria are a critical and seminal basis of the food web, and by monitoring the soil bacteria, Tri-Valley Conservancy would get a good idea of the health of, and effects to, the Aramis Solar Project local ecosystem. These will have broad ramifications for the overall ecosystem of the entire North Livermore Valley.