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Business Spotlight: Vegetation Management Solutions

Vegetation Management Solutions was chartered to Ron O’Hanlon in November 1999. Ron retired in August 2006. Jules Riley was assigned as the new unit leader of Vegetation Management Solutions Enterprise (VMS) in December 2006.

VMS provides services in two focus areas – ecosystem management support and advanced data technology.

The ecosystem management support side provides assistance to provinces and forests that are in short supply of the following skills:

• NEPA team management and document writing and editing
• Vascular and nonvascular rare plant surveys
• Wildlife surveys to protocol
• Contract development and administration for Wildlife, Botany, and Heritage Surveys

On the advanced data technology side, VMS provides GIS, Oracle and Access database application, data analysis, and other computer expertise to allow clients to leave the computing to experts. Tasks vary from providing GIS and data analysis support for vegetation management, vegetation monitoring, transportation systems, fire management, and other programs; and development and support of database applications for natural resource program applications.

For more information on how VMS can assist with your project needs, contact Jules Riley at (530) 258-5414 or jlriley@fs.fed.us, or visit their Web site: www.fs.fed.us/vms/. (From Enterprising People, February 2007)

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