So many land managers and owners are doing incredible work in vegetation management. We want to help these people share their vegetation management projects and successes with each other, and reward those projects that showcase the very best in Quality Vegetation Management practices.

Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

It allowed public-land managers to prohibit anything at all if it might harm some resource.

A lot of people are wanting to help but are not sure how. This storm has hit everyone's pocketbook hard. If people want to help, they can bring items, pitch in their time. This is the perfect time to find their niche with the hurricane disaster, ... And given that a lot of (schoolteachers) don't make a lot of money anyway, this is our way to help without having to spend a lot of money.

Network managers need to be more application-aware. As you move toward service-oriented architectures and Web services, the management changes pretty dramatically, and there isn't the tight coupling between the application and the infrastructure. It's more dynamic, and the network has more impact on the performance of those applications.