wildland

noun

wild·​land ˈwī(-ə)l(d)-ˌland How to pronounce wildland (audio)
: land that is uncultivated or unfit for cultivation

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In addition to the cuts by the Department of the Interior, led by Secretary Doug Burgum, similar cuts were made within the Department of Agriculture, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service and thousands of wildland firefighters and forest rangers. Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2025 Toward the end of my time working as a federal wildland firefighter, these large-scale, industrial fuel treatment projects were gaining momentum, even without FOFA. Delaney Rudy, The Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2025 Transferring those risks to insurance will become less and less affordable as the climate warms and more people live in the zone where cities meet wildlands, because the catastrophic risk to homes is high and getting higher. Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2025 Although the freeze exempted public safety workers, federal wildland firefighters were not covered by the exemption. Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wildland

Word History

First Known Use

1686, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of wildland was in 1686

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“Wildland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wildland. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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