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Description of Settings
Urban Setting Urban/Suburban- A landscape that is almost entirely covered by human developments, including most areas within cities and towns, subdivisions, commercial and industrial parks, and similar developments whether inside city limits or not.
Rural Setting Rural- An area where human developments are intermingled with vegetation, either cultivated or non-cultivated.
Wilderness Setting Wilderness- 'A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammelled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' Wilderness Act of 1964
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