From the text ... 'For more than 20 years, a small but diverse group of organizational experts have researched the nature of what we have come to call a High Reliability Organization (HRO). The HRO theory builds on and extends organizational research conducted since the late 1940s. Our understanding of these origins will remain important as the wildland fire community becomes generally familiar with High Reliability Organizing concepts -- and as advocates work to provide an HRO with traction among wildland fire practitioners.'