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Write an article
Put your name to a piece on something you know from the field. We help with editing and structure. You approve the final version.
Get involved
This only works if the industry writes it
The consortium is built on named practitioners sharing what they know across company lines. If you do this work, buy it, regulate it, or study it, there is a place for you here, and it does not have to take much of your time.
Ways to take part
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Be interviewed
Not a writer? Talk it through on a recorded call. We write it up as an article under your name, and nothing runs until you approve it.
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Share a video
If you have already explained it on camera, we can publish the video with a written summary, credited to you.
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Bring a question to the round table
Put an unsettled question in front of people from across the industry, with the competing arguments stated fairly.
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Join the founding roster
Founding members help set the charter and hold the first steering seats. Membership in this first phase is by invitation and carries no dues — tell us who you are and why this table matters to you, and we will take it from there.
Who we want at the table
Pipeline and midstream operators
ROW, integrity, land and vegetation program managers, and the field managers who live with the results of how the work was bought.
Contractors
Owners, supervisors and crew leads. The people who know what actually happens on a slope, in a wetland, or when the prescription meets the ground.
Regulators and agencies
PHMSA, state DOTs and state pipeline safety programs. The people who write and enforce the rules the work has to meet.
Conservation programs and researchers
Including the Rights-of-Way as Habitat Working Group at the University of Illinois Chicago, which administers the nationwide Monarch CCAA, and the researchers studying what managed ROW does for habitat.
Utility vegetation managers and arborists
The Trees and Utilities community, the Tree Care Industry Association, the International Society of Arboriculture and the state arborist associations. Transmission and distribution programs have worked through many of the same questions, and pipeline has a lot to learn from them.
Industry associations and standards bodies
The American Petroleum Institute and the associations that already convene this industry. We are not competing with them. ROW vegetation is a subject none of them owns end to end, and their people belong at this table.
Safety and compliance firms
The specialists who investigate incidents, write the programs and audit the work. Safety guidance is only as good as the people who have seen what actually goes wrong.
What we ask of contributors
- Your name and your company go on everything you contribute.
- No selling. No product pitches, and no links to your own company's service pages.
- Show your reasoning. Where the evidence is thin, say so.
- Field experience counts. Cite public sources where you rely on them.
- Safety pieces come from public records or accounts shared with permission. They focus on causes, never on blaming a person or a company.
- Every piece is reviewed before it runs, and you approve the final version.
Raise your hand
Tell us how you want to take part
A few details and a line about what you know. Someone will reply personally, usually to set up a short call. This is not an autoresponder list.
Prefer email? membership@rowvegetationmanagement.com