Wildland-Urban Interface Areas Have Increased by More Than 35% in the Past Two Decades, Study Finds

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By Cristen Hemingway JaynesNov 11, 2024, 6:15 pm426 pts
Over the course of the last several decades, people seeking to move out of populated areas have been increasingly building homes in neighboring wildlands. Wildland-urban interface (WUI) — places where human development meets undeveloped natural areas like grasslands, deserts or forests — grew by 35.6…

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