Forest
managers must ultimately finance the fire management programme and
given the very slim likelihood that the first fire management programme
proposal will meet the preferred land management fire regime objectives at a
cost that is acceptable to the land managers, should initiate an iterative
planning process during which land managers successively refine their fire
regime targets and fire managers refine their proposed plans to ultimately
converge on a fire management programme where a “preferred” fire regime
is produced at a cost acceptable to the forest managers.