Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU is committed to regaining, reviving and restoring the wildlands of the American West. Through an understanding of pre-settlement forest conditions, today's unnaturally intense wildfires and research of fire-prone ecosystems, ERI Executive Director Wally Covington and the ERI scientists are providing information to land managers in an historic effort to create healthy, biologically diverse landscapes that are assets, instead of threats, to future generations.