This online seminar is part of a series designed to engage a broad constituency of Big Bend community members to better inform them on recent energy projections, potential impacts on communities and conservation values, and to develop creative strategies to conserve the unique resources and communities of the region.

Featured speakers Dr. Joe Kiesecker and Melinda Taylor discussed Development by Design, an approach to prospective energy development that involves community, industry and landowner engagement.

While significant energy development appears unlikely in the near future in this area, Development by Design can serve as a design framework to help guide decisions about how to balance energy impacts with local values if and when energy development is projected in the feature.

Watch a video of the presentation below.