How to Use wildland in a Sentence

wildland

noun
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  • The refuge is one of the last great tracts of wildland left in the United States.
    — Lois Epstein, Alaska Dispatch News, 17 July 2017
  • The Indian Creek blaze is far and away the state’s largest wildland fire.
    — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The crash sparked a wildland fire that was quickly contained.
    — CBS News, 27 July 2021
  • Hotshot crews can be sent all over the United States to fight wildland fires.
    — NBC News, 21 July 2021
  • Less is known about the health of wildland firefighters.
    — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But at the end of the day, both approaches seek to protect wildlife and wildlands far into the future.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Training to be a wildland firefighter can be a tough sell.
    — Jake Karalexis, Fox News, 29 June 2022
  • Some, like Dan Liechty, had spent a summer fighting wildland fires.
    — Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • This is easy to do with snakes encountered in parks or other wildlands.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2018
  • One tool that goes in the pack is the Pulaski, a wildland-firefighting mainstay.
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The fire was later put out and there are no current active wildland fires in the park or any fire restrictions in place.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
  • Campbell’s project is designed to give firefighters a new tool against wildland fires, to help avert these kinds of tragedies.
    — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
  • And as humans have encroached more on wildlands, fire managers have had to work to put out any and all fires to save lives and property.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2019
  • Even as the heat stifles life outside of work, living in one of America’s wildlands brings a sense of freedom.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
  • Campfires may be permitted if the campfire is maintained to prevent its spread to the wildland.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 25 May 2017
  • Campfires may be permitted if the campfire is maintained in such a manner as to prevent its spread to the wildland.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 11 May 2018
  • Fire crews throughout Utah have been busy fighting wildland blazes this summer.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Now, wildland and fire experts hope the device may play a role in changing the landscape of wildfire prevention.
    — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The park’s position of deputy chief of wildland fire has been open for more than a year and is being filled with a temporary replacement.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
  • Had ground conditions been drier, the blaze could have erupted into a wildland fire of some size, according to the fire chief.
    — Paula Dobbyn, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Nearly 2,270 people are working to suppress the Bootleg fire, which is the country’s largest wildland blaze.
    — oregonlive, 23 July 2021
  • Little said the deaths were a tragedy that would be deeply felt by the families and the wildland firefighting community.
    — Rebecca Boone, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
  • Riebe grew up to work as a dump truck driver, a police dispatcher and a wildland firefighter.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Montara Mountain then rises and connects to miles of wildlands.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • The bill, House Bill 2203, started as a proposal about wildlands and watersheds.
    — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 20 Mar. 2018
  • This sort of terrain, between the settled and the unsettled land, is known as the wildland-urban interface, or WUI.
    — Ryan Bradley, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The wildland fires are, first and foremost, a public health and safety concern — threatening lives, homes and beloved landscapes.
    — oregonlive, 22 July 2021
  • From the late 1600s forward, scores of these settlers were granted ejidos, or wildland and forest commons.
    — Alicia Inez Guzmán For Searchlight Nm, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2022
  • Within a few minutes, spot fires were breaking out and a full wildland fire response with air support was ordered.
    — Pauline Repard, Ramona Sentinel, 7 May 2018
  • Elsewhere in the Los Angeles area, firefighters were gaining the upper hand on two other major wildland blazes.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2024

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