This new "Excellence Award" will be given out by forestmeister.com to those consultants who excel at silviculture, geopolitics, cosmology and HTML programming. Any forestry consultant may nominate his own web page which will be reviewed by The Forestmeister for style, content, a lack of the usual "forestry school party line", and of course most importantly, an awesome wit.

If the applicant's web lacks such grandeur, it will still receive the award since merely applying proves how highly qualified the applicant is. The consultant will receive an email from The Forestmeister- "after careful and deliberate consideration of this month's nominees for the coveted Forestmeister Web Site Award, The Forestmeister has bestowed this prestigious Award upon...". Hurry, apply now for this award which will eventually have the prestige of the Noble and the Pulitzer prizes rolled into one.

As of now, the 18 honored recipients of this award are:

• Karl Davies of Massachusetts
• Don Staples of Texas
• Bill Hohmann of New York
• Phil Finch of Oregon
• Nick Ananin of Scotland
• Robert Flynn of Washington state
• Professor J.R. Thibault, Ph.D. of Quebec, Canada
• Larry Harrell of Oregon
• Steve Nix of Alabama
• For Evergreen, Forest Managers & Consultants of Ontario, Canada
• O'Neal Forestry of Pennsylvania and
• Private Forest Management Team of Alabama
• Hornish Land Services, Inc. of West Virginia
• The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station in Asheville, NC
• Tom Carignan of Alabama
• Krieg & Slinkosky, Consulting Foresters of Pennsylvania
• Clark Forestry, Inc. of Wisconsin
• Advanced Forestry of Colorado
• Bob Crane of Wisconsin