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Figure 15.1: (a) Conceptual representation of how fire regime characteristics have changed due to the 20th century’s ‘command and control’ paradigm in fire management and (b) a future vision of fire consistent with the complex systems paradigm informed by modern resilience theory. Each piece of the pie represents a characteristic of the fire regime adapted from Twidwell et al. (2020). Grey fill represents a pre-settlement era for the Great Plains grasslands of North America, where indigenous groups long coexisted with fire (Twidwell et al. 2020). Black fill represents contemporary ranges of variation imposed on the culture of prescribed fire (Twidwell et al. 2020). Arrows indicate how technology can be used to influence each fire regime characteristic based on the ideals of command and control (a) versus a complex systems approach (b). FRI, fire return interval.