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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment > natural resources > land resources > wildland-urban interface
Preferred Term:

wildland-urban interface

Definition:
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.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
land resources
Narrower Concepts:
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • WUI (wildland urban interface)
  • urban-wildland interface
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/68410
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RDF/XMLCreated 2006-10-13, last modified 2017-07-18