National Forest and Grassland fire management has historically emphasized wildfire suppression and provided prescribed fire and fuel management support to other resources. Many fire management fuel treatments often occurred in a fragmented pattern because prescribed fire projects were typically located in response to the pattern of timber sales and range or wildlife vegetation improvements. Scientific assessments now indicate this past pattern of management combined with effects of traditional resource management resulted in a decline of ecosystem health, reduced capability to achieve societal values, increased risk of species endangerment, and watershed degradation. Presently, and especially in the future, a strong emphasis will be placed on a strategic design for integrated restoration and protection treatments to reduce wildfire risk and improve ecosystem health, while reducing risk to endangered species, air quality, and impaired streams. Scientific assessments indicate that a step-down planning process is required to achieve these objectives across multiple scales of fire and resource management functions. Systems for Environmental Management, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, and Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management are collaborating on the development of a computer tool designed to facilitate interagency landscape assessment. The computer tool provides users with a framework and data reports that emphasizes integration across multiple fire and resource functions, and across multiple scales of assessment and planning. A basic set of data is provided that incorporates broader scale assessment of fire regimes and landscape conditions across the nation to provide context for local plan revisions, amendments, project implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The Land and Fire Planning Tool (LAND) is designed to aid managers in developing draft assessment reports to support fire and associated resource management decisions. The information framework will be used to synthesize maps, models, data, scientific findings, and literature references to describe the broad-scale conditions and dynamics of landscapes using administrative hierarchies, ecological hierarchies, or combinations of the two hierarchies, across the conterminous United States. Users can access this information through a database program to address descriptive composition and cumulative effects for their area. The LAND model provides a consistent framework for local assessment of risk and opportunities for fire and resource management. Managers can use this information framework and analysis process to determine how much fuel management, what kind, where and how fuel management would integrate with wildfire suppression strategies and other resource programs.