what i want this place to be is a place where people can see new ways to engage in land practices and embra the traditional la practices of this landscape and bring in with thought and intention the new ones that make sense and go from there. we'll see. checkack in 5 years, you know. [whirring] willie: in order to be a good land manager, i have to know the land. i vision a lot about what it can be but i also need to figure out what it is. and i've been learning what's here, just seeing the changes that this land goes through, and i'd like to do this for the whole year. ha ha! to me, that would be the ideal thing for me is to just sit here for a year and see what happens, you know, through the seasons. and then start thinking about, you know, what are we gonna do? moncada: we dedicated our first year of being here to listening, and we held some gatherings. we've held a "listening to the land" event and we gathered our communities and we said, "what happens when you come here? what do you hear?" and as part of that listening, we came to our name, and the name that we have come to for this pla