The Wildland-Urban Interface:
Mapping the Story of
the
Growing Wildfire Problem
All across America, an important trend
in housing—families moving out of
the big cities—has been changing the
landscape and ecology of America.
While some are just moving to the inner
suburbs, many are moving to the far
edges of metropolitan areas and others
are moving out entirely, back to small
cities and small towns or even into the
countryside and the wildlands. This
trend, called ”ex-urbanization,” began
in the 1970s, slowed in the 1980s, but
picked up again in the 1990s.
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Research Review - Volume 5 - Winter 2009 (1.4 mb pdf)
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