Paul Summerfelt
Fuel Management Officer, City of Flagstaff

"We tend to look at the interface… as much larger than a lot of people do."

Brian Nowicki
Conservation biologist

"…the presettlement prescription that is being implemented is the most extreme method of forest restoration… removing 90 percent of the trees, and severely reducing the biomass."

"…wildland-urban interface protection… is very much centered on the objectives of protecting people, houses, and communities from burning. And to do that, it requires very specific treatments…in particular, there is absolute need when protecting houses from burning, of treating that area, the yard that is directly around that house."

Dan Oltrogge
Aviation Operations Manager, Grand Canyon National Park

"[Aerial ignition] has to be under the right conditions, and it's not really a science—to me it's almost an art…"

Brian Nowicki
Conservation biologist

"When you're implementing projects and doing treatments that are not within a couple of miles of even a single house, then, that's an improper project to call a wildland-urban interface project."

Diane Vosick
Senior program representative, Northern Arizona University's Ecological Restoration Institute

"We're looking at a more comprehensive solution that not only gets at the problem of wildfire…but it also is looking at the other controversial and difficult issues confronting the forest, and that's forest health."

Charlie Denton
Retired career firefighter and district ranger for the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest

"You have live fuel and you have dead fuel…"