Abstract: The South Warner Wilderness in managed by the Warner Mountain Ranger District, part of the Modoc National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan. In that plan and in the 1992 Wilderness Implementation Schedule, goals are set for the development of a fire management plan for the South Warner Wilderness. The fire management plan became known as the South Warner Wilderness Fire Management Plan (SWWFMP). This thesis reports on and analyzes a public involvement project and an oral history project, both associated with the development of the SWWFMP. The projects were specifically intended to work towards meeting legal requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act and other federal laws, as well as regulations set forth be the Council on Environmental Quality (SEQ.). The projects and their results are reported on and analyzed as examples of anthropological practice in the context of wilderness management at the Warner Mountain Ranger District. Applied anthropologists, dedicated to the study of cultures and their contexts, and to the development and use of that knowledge in the solution of practical problems, have contributions to make in the solution of forest management problems. The projects, the methods used in the pursuit of the projects, and the results of the projects are described within their legal, administrative, economic, historical and political contexts. The final chapter analyzes the contributions of anthropology to each project. An emic-historical-holistic-comparative approach is used as the model for the anthropological perspective. The utility and utilization of the project reports is assessed using a utilization framework. The current status of the utilization of the project reports is described.