Management objective to limit the adverse physical, environmental, social, political, and/or economic effects of fire. This represents the desire to prevent damage from wildland fire. The opposite of benefit.
Source: National Wildfire Coordinating Group. " Terminology Updates Resulting from Release of the Guidance for the Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009) Attachment A: Terms whose definition and intent has changed with the Guidance for the Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009). Accessed 7 July, 2011. Available at http://www.nwcg.gov