chaparral
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Other chaparral plants do not rely on fire but instead simply tolerate it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025
But Alexandra Syphard, a fire ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute, noted that 50 years is still relatively early in the chaparral fire cycle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025
According to the ATF special agent, a firebrand became lodged within dense chaparral and then smoldered and burned within the roots of the vegetation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
Below are thickets of green chaparral and densely packed homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn’t going to hurt him.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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Western Europe - Introductory
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