wildland
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈwaɪldˌlænd/
- US
:
tierra salvaje
- Unfortunately, other students arrive at parks with negative preconceptions about wildland areas that interfere with the effectiveness of these programs.
- wildland area
- wildland fire
- wildland management
Examples
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Help the Laguna Canyon Foundation and OC Parks by restoring the wildlands to their natural state.
Blog text (23) -
As more houses are built near wildlands, more of them burn.
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School children, however, represent a cross section of the population that regularly visits wildland areas.
Academic text (1994) -
At the landscape scale, urban and suburban populations are in increasingly frequent contact with wildlands.
Academic text (2010) -
Direct experiences in wildlands must cause students to reconsider many of the beliefs they acquired through media depictions and hearsay.
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Acadia National Park in Maine protects some of the last wildlands on the Atlantic Coast.
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The district's 100,000 acres constitute a vast chunk of wildland, one that burgeons with wildlife of all varieties.
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A lightning-sparked fire has blackened about 5,000 acres of wildland in the Ruby Valley.
Synonyms
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2.8
An area of land that is natural and not changed by people
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3.8
A natural area not changed by people and without people living there
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4.4
A protected area of land for wildlife or local people
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4.9
An area of land where animals and plants are protected
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2.6
Land with many trees and bushes, not a deep forest
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4.1
A wild area with bushes and small trees, often in Australia
A thick natural forest left alone by people
How Wild
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Morphology
Etymology
Wildland is a simple combination of wild ('not tamed, natural') and land ('ground, area'), similar to the familiar word woodland. So a wildland is an area where nature is left free and undeveloped.