Update: On May 30, 2016, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signed the solar-site management bill into law. Solar power is poised to take off in Minnesota. And in the process, it might just give a little boost to birds. Back in 2013, Minnesota set a statewide goal of generating 10 percent of its energy from solar by 2030. That same year, a different law gave a leg up to community solar “gardens”—facilities where groups and residents can subscribe to solar power to offset their own electricity use. Altogether, photovoltaic (PV) cells are expected to go up on some 4,500 acres of former farmland in the state by the end of this year. Now, a bill has been penned to encourage the planting of native grasses and wildflowers in and around new solar PV facilities. That way the projects not only provide clean energy, but also support pollinators like hummingbirds, bees, and monarch butterflies. (Many pollinators have declined in recent years from habitat loss, pesticides, pathogens...