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。