Dossier
wild places
Coverage of wild places in the Nexus archive.
- Reno became an affordable, booming destination. Fires show the limits of all that growth
The urban-wildland interface, where human development mixes with wild places, is currently the fastest-growing land-use type in the U.S. Fires are examples of danger in this zone, which is being impacted by warming planets, drying vegetation, and increasingly destructive wildfires.