I am a Ranger, but I am a forest ecologist as well. When I functioned as a specialist and spoke for the trees and their ecosystems, it seemed so simple. Act on the research, maintain HRV, keep your landscapes resilient to perturbation, and mimic Mother Nature. Now that I am a manager of all resources it becomes much more complicated or at least for me it does; balancing competing interests, goals and objectives from resource specialists and the public. I will highlight some of our successes and our challenges we face with restoration projects. Of course since I am a forester it will be all about trees and that landscape!