To create a business as usual map (Figure 11), the team did an overlay exercise, asking where projected wind development is likely to occur if no new strategy is advanced, and where that development intersects with sensitive habitat areas. Ecologically sensitive areas were mapped for the study region (Oklahoma, Kansas, and a small portion of Texas). These included threatened and endangered species, species at particular risk from wind development (bats), rare habitat, and the most intact examples of ‘matrix’ habitat (grasslands). These are areas where wind development would compromise conservation goals through direct mortality of species, or impacts to habitat due to both direct habitat destruction and fragmentation and indirect effects such as species avoiding suitable habitat due to disturbance caused by energy development.