This paper is a combined report for three Wildland Fire Use (WFU) fires on the Stanislaus and Sequoia National Forest. We combined them because we felt there was greater applicability by combining the information. There were slightly two different scopes for the individual projects. The Sequoia was interested in a formal, peer-reviewed publication whereas the Stanislaus was interested primarily in an evaluation of the resource benefits of the WFU’s and suggestions for development of resource management objectives. This report contains a draft of the paper for peer-review publication that we believe meets the needs of both projects.