Further, these tools and technologies will be subject to as much public scrutiny as industrial and transportation air pollution sources have been in the past. Hopefully, these programs will acknowledge that wildland fire is different from more conventional human-caused air pollution sources. They will recognize that the managed use of fire is a far superior option to wildfire from at least public safety and human health perspectives. However, in circumstances where fire is used for primarily economic rather than ecological reasons, procedures to steadily reduce emissions will likely be required. The structure applied is that each task that needs to be performed requires information.
Information comes from data and tools that generate and enhance the data.