How to Use wildland in a Sentence

wildland

noun
  • Are there rules about names for wildland fires?
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
  • These fires mean fighting that much harder to keep them in the wildland.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The crash sparked a wildland fire that was quickly contained.
    — CBS News, 27 July 2021
  • In the mean time, please steer clear of the wildlands affected by this week’s fires.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That’s the life wildland firefighting saved me from.
    — River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This is easy to do with snakes encountered in parks or other wildlands.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2018
  • The refuge is one of the last great tracts of wildland left in the United States.
    — Lois Epstein, Alaska Dispatch News, 17 July 2017
  • Some of its members had learned wildland firefighting in prison.
    — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Hotshot crews can be sent all over the United States to fight wildland fires.
    — NBC News, 21 July 2021
  • The Indian Creek blaze is far and away the state’s largest wildland fire.
    — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2020
  • There was a 60% increase in wildland fire acres burned so far this year during the same time frame last year.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Fire crews throughout Utah have been busy fighting wildland blazes this summer.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Some, like Dan Liechty, had spent a summer fighting wildland fires.
    — Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The crews at Holton clear brush and establish fire lines during wildland fires, the state said.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
  • More people now live in and at the edges of wildland areas, and the power grid has expanded with them.
    — Jon Keeley, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But experts long ago observed that wildland blazes throw off embers, which can soar on winds to ignite dwellings miles away.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But at the end of the day, both approaches seek to protect wildlife and wildlands far into the future.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Campbell’s project is designed to give firefighters a new tool against wildland fires, to help avert these kinds of tragedies.
    — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The fire was later put out and there are no current active wildland fires in the park or any fire restrictions in place.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
  • North Metro Fire Rescue crews train to battle wildland fires.
    — Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Riebe grew up to work as a dump truck driver, a police dispatcher and a wildland firefighter.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Campfires may be permitted if the campfire is maintained to prevent its spread to the wildland.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 25 May 2017
  • And as humans have encroached more on wildlands, fire managers have had to work to put out any and all fires to save lives and property.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2019
  • Montara Mountain then rises and connects to miles of wildlands.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • One tool that goes in the pack is the Pulaski, a wildland-firefighting mainstay.
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • So do ignition sources, such as vehicles and power lines in wildland areas.
    — Seyd Teymoor Seydi, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Campfires may be permitted if the campfire is maintained in such a manner as to prevent its spread to the wildland.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 11 May 2018
  • Duncan noted that many wildland firefighters wear their pants even in the offseason.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Most people have no clue what a hotshot is, but in the wildland fire community hotshots are held in high regard.
    — River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Then, wildland firefighters still had to battle the 38-acre fire that took a week to fully contain.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026

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