Between June and November 2000, fourteen focus groups were held in four selected sites to elicit and document the range of perspectives, concepts and lexicon for discussing fire management and fuel treatment. Scales for fuel treatment acceptance factors such as fire knowledge, attitudes toward fuel treatments, and beliefs about the outcomes of fuel treatments will be developed from the focus group data. This report summarizes the transcription, coding and analysis of remarks from these focus groups by frequency and distribution. This is an intermediate work product for use in the development of the Phase II survey instrument. A subsequent report in the form of a journal manuscript will follow. Overall study objectives: 1. Identify the issues related to fire management generally, and fuel management specifically, which are salient to residents of fire-prone wildland-urban interface areas across the U.S.; inventory the language and terminology that experts and the public use to express issues, concerns, and beliefs relating to fire and fuel management. 2. Test individual questions and scales (sets of questions) to develop a set of reliable and valid measures of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and individual characteristics (e.g., demographics, past experience) relevant to fire and fuel management. 3. Develop and test a model of the causal factors and processes by which individuals evaluate the acceptability of a fuel management policy or plan.