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Reducing the size and severity of wildland fires through vegetation management treatments (e.g., mechanical or manual vegetation removal, prescribed fire) is a high priority for land and natural resource managers, policy-makers, resource users, and public stakeholders. However, it is neither desirable or feasible to conduct treatments across an entire landscape due to legal, regulatory, budgetary, societal, and operational constraints. Collaborative processes involving managers and a broad range of stakeholder interests are being used across the US West to strategically prioritize where to reduce the severity of fire effects to values of concern, and where to allow fire to operate as a critical ecological process. This presentation identifies six core collaborative �action arenas� for advancing fire-resilient landscapes and will highlight how these principles have been applied on the Uncompahgre Plateau in western Colorado as an illustrative example. The six action arenas include: organizing participants; enabling learning opportunities and activities; making decisions about management objectives and appropriate actions; coordinating and resourcing implementation actions; monitoring effects; evaluating outcomes relative to objectives; and legitimizing collaborative efforts by cultivating public and political support. Four factors affecting collaboration will also be discussed, including: supportive policies, committed leadership, willingness of participants to work towards collaborative solutions, and boundary-spanning individuals, structures, activities, and objects.