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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment
  2. natural resources
  3. land resources
  4. wildland-urban interface

Preferred term

wildland-urban interface

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information The common area where human settlements and built structures are intermixed and/or adjacent to undeveloped land in which the vegetation is permitted to grow without significant human interference.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

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Synonyms

  • urban-wildland interface
  • WUI (wildland urban interface)

In other languages

  • interfaz urbano-rural

    Spanish

  • interfase urbano-forestal
  • interfase urbano-rural
  • interfaz urbano-forestal
  • WUI (del inglés: wildland-urban interface)

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/68410

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