A legal concept that a person can obtain ownership of property or land by living in it. Several United States federal laws codified and encouraged this in the 19th and early 20th centuries by giving land to “homesteaders” who met certain qualifications.

An uncontrolled wildfire in a woodland area of combustible vegetation.

A method of halting or redirecting the advance of wildfire by starting a fire directed towards the original fire to burn any fuel in the fire’s path.