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  • initialism Wildland-urban interface.

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Examples

  • What we really need to do is take a lesson from the Europeans whose mountain resorts were in many ways the models for Vail and Beaver Creek and start farming the forests in what fire officials call the WUI (pronounced woo-ee), or Wildland Urban Interface.

    Vail Daily - Top Stories 2009

  • What we really need to do is take a lesson from the Europeans whose mountain resorts were in many ways the models for Vail and Beaver Creek and start farming the forests in what fire officials call the WUI (pronounced woo-ee), or Wildland Urban Interface.

    The Vail Trail - All Sections David O. Williams Vail, CO, Colorado www.realvail. 2009

  • According to the US Forest Service Northern Research Station's Research Review, Winter 2009, "Across the United States, 9. 4% of all land is classified as WUI and 38. 5% of all homes are in the WUI; in 19 of the lower 48 states, more than half all homes are in the WUI."

    PR.com Press Releases Quality Parks 2009

  • What we really need to do is take a lesson from the Europeans whose mountain resorts were in many ways the models for Vail and Beaver Creek and start farming the forests in what fire officials call the WUI (pronounced woo-ee), or Wildland Urban Interface.

    The Vail Trail - All Sections 2009

  • Take a look at this list with ten WUI I suggest you to try in order to simplify your work and develope faster beautiful and usable user interfaces.

    10 Beautiful Web UI libraries 2009

  • The increased cost relates to wildfire suppression practices as well as the growing number of wildland urban interface WUI homes.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Requiring WUI residents to pay an annual tax for their wildfire risk would lower costs to the general taxpayer.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • But that number has been growing steadily, as have the costs of protecting the WUI.

    The Fires Next Time 2007

  • Requiring WUI residents to pay an annual tax for their wildfire risk would lower costs to the general taxpayer.

    Literary Warrant [15] 2007

  • The increased cost relates to wildfire suppression practices as well as the growing number of wildland urban interface WUI homes.

    Literary Warrant [15] 2007

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