Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the ...
When the Palisades Fire started near a hiking trail in Los Angeles on January 7—quickly spreading to more than 200 acres in ...
The mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County are in “extreme drought” conditions, about 36% of the county, explained ...
Southern California could transform itself into ... Cognitive Dissonance in the Shrublands,” Although counterintuitive, chaparral plant communities are much more resilient to infrequent, high ...
Where chaparral plants cover a broad area and are uniformly old and senescent, fires tend to be large and devastating. The National Park Service notes, “Southern California chaparral and coastal ...
In the wine world, the term is often a descriptor of wine from Southwestern France, especially the Languedoc, Provence, and ...
Los Angeles is dominated by chaparral, a type of scrub that occurs in Mediterranean climates where there is dense, rocky soil ...
It will hit Southern California and bring one-tenth to ... he said. The dwindling chaparral — indigenous plants that are more fire resistant than invasive plants that grow quickly and take ...
The fires are even wiping out many of the plants butterflies and other pollinators ... who contributed to the study. In ...