To accomplish the mission of NRCG, committees have been established to address issues. Each committee is comprised of an NRCG liason, representatives from each of the seven zones plus technical specialists with expertise and interest in the subject area. NRCG committees include:

Aviation - established to provide cooperative interagency aviation expertise in support of wildland fire management. Aviation safety to include management and operations oversight is the primary focus.

Business - established to develop and coordinate business management policy and procedures within interagency standards.

Equipment - established to develop and coordinate equipment standards, policy and procedures within interagency standards.

Fire Program Analysis - established to provide guidance, advice, monitoring, and assistance to field units in the interagency implementation of FPA. FPA is an interagency analysis that includes an aggregation of all lands being considered in the analysis called a Fire Planning Unit (FPU). Twelve interagency FPUs have been identified in the Northern Rockies.

Fire Use - established to better integrate fire-related considerations into resource management objectives, plans, and practices across agencies; facilitate interagency coordination of prescribed fire applications across ownerships; develop public awareness strategies to support an expanded fire use program, complementary to on-going fire prevention efforts; and recommend prioritization criteria, used for allocating resources within the Area across a full range of fire management activities.

Native American Crew (NAC) - organized to recommend emergency firefighter crew management policy to fire protection agencies.

Operations - established to provide a zone consensus approach to incident management operational issues.

Prevention and Interface - established to coordinate fire prevention activities between the NRCG agencies, and between NRCG agencies and structural fire organizations with particular emphasis on the interface and other areas of high person caused fire risk; identify an interagency approach for meeting fire suppression responsibilities in interface areas considering the capabilities and legislated responsibilities of the agencies and those of local governments and private property owners; in addition, develop and implement an educational program about the role of fire in ecosystem management.

Training - coordinates efforts which will facilitate the development, presentation and evaluation of Wildland Fire Suppression, Incident Management, Aviation Management, Fire Use and Fuels Management interagency training needs in the Northern Rockies Area.

NRCG Board/Committee Liaisons:

Aviation	Jim Kelton / FWS
Business	Ted Mead / MT DNRC
Equipment	Bill Colwell / MT Fire Chiefs
Fire Program Analysis	Tim Reid / NPS
Native American Crew	Bob Roberts / RM BIA
Operations	Patti Koppenol / USFS & Phil Grimstad / MT DES
Prevention & Interface	Ken Schmid / BLM
Training	Sarah Tunge / NDFS