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Abstract
People love to live near forests, lakes, open space, and scenic beauty. These natural settings draw people to build homes in areas classified as the wildland-urban interface (WUI): spaces where human development meets the natural world. Although houses in the WUI are built on private land, they are often close to national forests, within inholdings (patches of private land within national forests), or close to other public land. Tracking and understanding WUI growth therefore has implications for forest health and management across public and private lands.
Citation
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 2024. Where Humans and Forests Meet: The Rapidly Growing Wildland-Urban Interface. Rooted in Research Issue 28, April 2024. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 2 p.
