
Humans and habitat intersect in the wildland-urban interface, or WUI, a geography that now includes about one-third of homes in the United States within just 10 percent of the nation’s land area. Both numbers are growing, according to a new USDA Forest Service map book summarizing the extent of the nation’s WUI nationally and by state.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150915104956.htm