How to Use wildland in a Sentence

wildland

noun

• 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
• 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
• Californians have also been moving to riskier, more fire-prone areas, in what is known as the wildland–urban interface, or WUI.
  — Jack Carroll, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024