Acknowledgements

The authors of Development by Design in West Texas: Mitigating Energy Sprawl Through Cooperative Landscape Planning would like to thank the following people for their support and assistance during the preparation of this report:

Marilu Hastings and the Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation for conceiving of this project and their generous support for our work;

The Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation, Meadows Foundation, Permian Basin Area Foundation and the Still Water Foundation for providing important additional funding for the Respect Big Bend project;

The Stakeholder Advisory Group for providing valuable local perspective and reviewing this report;

Kip Averitt, Chad Ellis, Clay Miller, Marita Mirzatuny, Dan Mueller, Amber Ott and Andrew Sullivan, our Respect Big Bend Coalition partners, who also contributed to the report; 

Jim Bolander, Blair Fitzsimons, Justin French, Carlos Gonzalez, Tanya Heikkila, Dana Karelus, Kate Konschnik, Matt Lepore, Colin Leyden, Destiny Locke, Russell Martin, James Oliver, Amy Pickle and Michael Teague for their indispensable input and engagement at the beginning stages of the project;

David Monsma, formerly of The Aspen Institute, and the experts they brought together through its Energy and Environment Program, whose recommendations paved the way for Respect Big Bend;

Numerous individuals, agencies, institutions and organizations who offered their time and expertise throughout this project: Scott Anderson, John Andrews, John Beckworth, Thomas Deetjen, KK DuVivier, Gina Eddy, Joseph Fitzsimons, Therese Harris, Charlie Hemmeline, Emily Jolly, Katherine Jones, Kristian Koellner, Bruce Kramer, Matt Gilhousen, Kinnan Golemon, Colin Meehan, Josh Rhodes, Nichole Saunders, David Smithson, Michael Webber, Brad Wolaver, Constance Wyman, Rebecca Zerwas, the staff of The Nature Conservancy of Texas and the Texas Nature Diversity Database team.