From the text: 'We have established that fire in the Intermountain West is a well recognized and time honored natural orce as part of our dynamic evolution. We have had no trouble agreeing that fire preceded man and, until very recently at least, has been a far more potent force than man in shaping our landscape. We seem to be less certain of the facts and circumstances where man enters the picture, but in the main, the differences expressed there were mostly details. We seem to agree that fire as a tool should be in man's kit, but we don't seem to realize just how the tool can and should be used. As an extreme illustration, we know that fire in the fireplace serves man well, whereas wildfire on the mountainside on an August afternoon is fearful indeed. We seem to have trouble grasping just how fire as a great natural force can be adapted and adjusted to a changing world in which man's values are established and maintained by a complex set of factors with little direct relation to fire itself.