Wildland in a sentence

We spend thousands of hours each fire season watching over the wildland — and the wildland-urban interface in which many of us live.

The negative sentiment towards wildland fire prevailed and helped to shape wildland fire management objectives throughout most of the 20th century.

Wildland-urban interface policy seeAlso An aspect of wildfire policy that is gaining attention is the wildland-urban interface (WUI).

A 5,500-acre wildfire is burning northwest of Ochopee in the Big Cypress National Preserve on Saturday as wildland firefighters work to save several buildings.

Air tankers, like this one dropping fire retardant near Hay River in September, were a common sight this summer in the N.W.T. and across Canada, and an important tool in wildland firefighting.

Both the frequency and size of the wildland fires have increased dramatically over the years, often stretching firefighting budgets to their limits, Trauernicht said.

Christian Reed on the job as a wildland firefighter for the Santa Fe Fire Department.

Close to 80 wildland firefighters arrived yesterday from Quebec and Ontario and are on their way to areas that need them the most.

Flagstaff Fire Department’s Wildland Fire Management Program and the Coconino National Forest coordinate response efforts year-round to keep our community as safe as possible.

Funding for the apparel comes from a provincial grant intended for the purchase of new gear, specifically for wildland firefighting.

In 2023 thus far, Eagle Valley Wildland has completed 1,800 acres of treatment in Eagle County.

Members of a Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources wildland firefighting crew in Maui battle a fire in Kula on Tuesday.

The landscape alteration is fuel treatments done by Eagle Valley Wildland as part of the organization’s fire mitigation efforts in Eagle County.

The legislation could require coastal communities to plan for sea level rise, while others could focus on preserving drinking water and limiting development in the wildland urban interface where homes are more at risk during fire season.

U.S. Army Pfc. Joel Nunez, a medic in the California National Guard, treats Army Pfc. Zacharia Lynch’s feet for blisters during wildland firefighting training at Camp San Luis Obispo, California, June 23, 2023.

Anyone with the updated URL can digitally hover over a city or wildland boundary to see block by block what it looked like before and after the arrival of a wildfire, flood, storm or earthquake.

Boothby Wildland spans 617 hectares of grade 3 soil and aims to rewild farmland.

Bouchard and Evans hired a team of experts, including an attorney, a wildland fire mitigation specialist and an outdoor recreation planning design firm, to testify at the hearing.

California’s 2017 Thomas Fire (shown) was included in a new analysis of more than 1,500 wildland fires teasing out how drought and fire combine to affect western U.S. lands.

Flathead County has identified all five communities as being within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).