This project was generously supported by Robe River Mining and its project manager Pilbara Iron (a Rio Tinto business unit) under the auspices of the West Angelas Coondewanna West Environmental Offsets Agreement. It was conducted at the Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC), Kensington, and we thank the managers of this agency for their support and encouragement of this project.

There are many people who helped with acquiring and assembling information for Wattles of the Pilbara; however, the following people deserve special thanks because of their specific involvement in the production of this CD.

• Beng Siew Mahon (DEC) for library assistance.
• Mathew (Mat) Taylor and Jessica Tsai (Centre of Biological Information Technology, University of Queensland) for assistance regarding the Lucid and Fact Sheet Fusion software packages, for the preparation of the FSF template and for the design layout that is used here for presenting the Wattles of the Pilbara information, and the production of the Wattles of the Pilbara user guide.
• Kevin Thiele (DEC) for specialist advice regarding Lucid.
• Steve Dillon (DEC) and Conrad Slee (Ecologia Environmental) for pre-publication testing of Wattles of the Pilbara.
• Richard Woodman for Photoshop preparation of most of the photographs that are presented here. Photographers are acknowledged with each photograph that is presented on this CD.
• Jana Sturis (DEC) for Photoshop assistance in relation to assembling the artwork.
• Robert (Bob) Bromilow (DEC) for preparation of distribution maps and auditing of collection records. Also for significant contribution made during field studies.
• Margaret Pieroni and Marion Westmacott are gratefully thanked for allowing us to reproduce some of their illustrations here; much of the artwork was originally published in the WATTLE: Acacias of Australia CD. Additional illustrations were prepared by Bradley (Brad) Durrant.
• The Australian Biological Resources Study, and especially Annette Wilson, are thanked for providing electronic scans of much of the artwork and for giving permission to use content that was formerly presented in the WATTLE: Acacias of Australia CD (ABRS was a co-publisher of that CD).

The following people are acknowledged and thanked for their assistance with field studies.

• Carol Buchanan (Rio Tinto).
• Daphne Edinger and Gilbert Marsh (DEC volunteers).
• Steve Hauter (Shire of East Pilbara).
• Denis O’Meara.
• Emil Thoma (Rio Tinto).
• Paul Udinga, Maitland Parker and other DEC staff at Karajini National Park.