First off, before Columbus arrived, the Americas were not just sparsely populated wildlands with tribes wandering through them.

首先，在哥伦布到达美洲之前，那里并不只是人烟稀少，部落星点其中的荒野。

There are hundreds of millions of acres of wildland in the American forests.

美国森林中有数亿英亩的荒地。

If you keep the people out of the forest and the wildlands, then there's no human-caused fires.

如果你能保证让人类从森林和荒野中迁出，就没有人为火灾隐患了。

Fire whirls are an important phenomenon that occur in wildlands and they occur naturally and they occur very, very frequently.

火旋涡是发生在野外的一种重要现象，它们是自然发生的，而且非常非常频繁。

And it's a nice compact development surrounded by wildland vegetation.

这是一个很好的紧凑型开发项目，周围环绕着荒地植被。

And, we keep developing farther and farther into the wildland areas.

而且，我们一直在向荒地地区越来越远地发展。

This here, to me, is the classic fire-prone, Southern California, wildland urban interface landscape.

- 对我来说，这里是典型的火灾频发的南加州荒地城市界面景观。

Rod Dow is now retired but he has hours of stories to share from his lengthy career as a wildland firefighter and smokejumper.

Rod Dow 现在退休了，但他担任荒地消防员和森林跳伞员漫长职业生涯有太多故事分享。

Those who study wildland fires say that managing our forests controlling carbon emissions and embracing safer building practices are all part of the solution.

研究野火的人说，管理我们的森林、控制碳排放和采用更安全的建筑实践都是解决方案的一部分。

And then the worst thing you can do is leapfrogging little, new, developing clusters of development out in the wildlands.

然后，你能做的最糟糕的事情就是在荒地中跳跃式地跨越小的、新的、发展中的开发集群。

He was not a student of good manners. It was merely that in the presence of this foreign condition he was a simple child of the wildlands.

他并不是一个品行好的人，仅仅是在这种生疏的境况下，他变成了一个荒地里的淳朴孩子。

The wildland urban interface, where more dense development meets wild area, has seen more new homes built than any other land type throughout the country.

荒地城市界面， 即更密集的开发与荒地相遇的地方，新建房屋数量超过全国任何其他土地类型。

It illustrates one important principle of wildland fires, you don't want to be uphill of a spreading fire because it can spread very, very rapidly and be very dangerous.

它说明了荒地火灾的一个重要原则，你不希望火灾沿着山向上蔓延，因为它会蔓延得非常非常迅速，非常危险。

In order to solve the megafire crisis, we need to bring our western landscapes back into a healthy balance by reducing the overgrown brush and trees in the wildlands and the forest.

为了解决特大火灾危机，我们需要通过减少荒地和森林中杂草丛生的灌木丛和树木让西部环境恢复健康平衡。

The project also of leaving a big percentage of the earth's surface to our cousin species gained momentum, with large reserves of wildland connected by habitat corridors to make migrations possible again.

将地表一大部分留给其他物种的计划也有了动力，栖息地走廊连接了大量的荒地，使迁徙再次成为可能。

It sounded good, but in the early '90s in Chile, where wildlands philanthropy, which is what we called it, was completely unknown, we faced tremendous suspicion, and from many quarters, downright hostility.

这听起来很不错，但在九十年代初期的智利，“荒野保护慈善事业”——我们是这么叫它的——对于人们而言是完全未知的领域，我们因此承受了来自社会的高度质疑，以及来自四面八方的敌意。

This map shows the annual likelihood of wildfire in 2050. The places most at risk of devastating wildfires aren't cities, but instead houses and developments on the edge of wildlands and places with lots of fire.

这张地图显示了 2050 年每年发生野火的可能性。 发生毁灭性野火风险最大的地方不是城市，而是荒地边缘和大火地区的房屋和开发项目。

Then Alexandra and Chris suggested thinking about what types of land use can be a buffer between wildlands and communities, things we already irrigate, like orchards, vineyards, and even golf courses could be cited around communities as a fire buffer.

然后亚历山德拉和克里斯建议考虑什么类型的土地利用可以成为荒地和社区之间的缓冲区，我们已经灌溉的东西， 如果园、葡萄园， 甚至高尔夫球场都可以在社区周围被引用为火灾缓冲区。