chaparral

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• The vegetation consists of coastal sage scrub, chaparral and groves of Englemann oak and live oak.
• Many of the species native to California, such as the prickly chaparral, rely on fires to propagate.
• We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation.
• They are moving incredibly quickly through dried brush and chaparral that practically explode when they ignite, threatening the life of any firefighter nearby.
• My blog, however, was specifically about the chaparral brushland of Southern California, not about pine, fir and cedar forests of the West. Chris McGowan: Chaparral & Global Warming Footnotes
• The Chaparral Fire Unit may be used either carrier mounted or unmounted.
• Another feature of the chaparral often occupies the field entirely to itself, viz., the chamisal or greasewood (_Adenostoma fasciculatum_, Hook, and Arn.). The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
• In California, the chaparral and coastal sage shrubs form excellent cover for rodents, rabbits, and birds.
• Before 1886, the 904-foot hill behind the UCSF Medical Center then known as Mount Parnassus was covered in low brush and chaparral, just like the rest of San Francisco. SF Weekly | Complete Issue
• There was a summer's worth of intense sunlight radiating back through the tangled chaparral. WHERE THE HEART IS